Sentences with phrase «books at the behest»
In 2014, the plaintiffs in the Vergara trial claimed that several California education statutes — all of which are on the books at the behest of the teachers unions — cause greater harm to minority and economically disadvantaged populations because their schools «have a disproportionate share of grossly ineffective teachers.»
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David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.
«Imagine a world» where ALL content is only available at the behest of someone / something... Books stimulate an individual's own unique imagination, own the channel for providing that input into a person's mind and also have the ability to manage and even control that same person's perceptions.