Sentences with phrase «by reformers who»

Unions were targeted by republicans whose primary focus was reducing state spending and by reformers who wanted to make teachers more accountable.

These two unions have been under attack for the past few years by reformers who point to their slavish clinging to the status quo as a major barrier to badly needed education reform.

Not exact matches

• Prior to the election, some Iranian commentators claimed that the so - called reformer Hossein Moussavi would actually end up taking a stronger line against the United States than President Ahmadinejad, who was widely denounced by hard - line clerics for agreeing to meet with Barack Obama.

As was explained in Chapter Two, the Wahhabi movement was inspired by the teachings of Ibn Taymiyya, the great reformer who sought to save the Muslim world from doctrinal divisive forces so it could be more powerful in withstanding foreign aggression.

I wish someone had told that to the Reformers, some of whom were burned for translating the Bible into their native languages so people could read it, who argued for salvation by grace against a salvation by works Gospel, who argued for Jesus as the son of God, uncreated, instead of just one among many of «God's» created beings.

And to justify themselves churches and ministers had before them the example of the Great Physician and Reformer who had compassion on every man in natural need and prophesied to an oppressed, divided nation threatened by disaster.

«Another objection to moral relativism is called by Fred Feldman «The Reformer's Dilemma,» which describes the situation of an activist who sees a society in need of improvement and feels compelled to propose some alteration for its citizens.

We must confess that in our current era, many who adopt the name have departed in significant ways from the faith as expressed by the early Lutheran reformers.

It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided by stressing only those convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.

After a prolonged struggle, the Papal chair was won by the reformers and was filled by men who freed the throne of Peter from the perversions which had scandalized right - thinking men and women.

It is the same Spirit too who by divine «inward testimony» (as the Reformers of the sixteenth century phrased it) or deeply experienced witness enables us to recognize that same divine Action, in lesser degree and in different fashion to be sure, but nonetheless truly, wherever God is moving toward us, soliciting an answer from us, awakening desire in us, urging us to respond to the divine revelatory act.

He often appears as the earnest reformer, someone who perceives the world as a never - ending series of problems and crises to be solved by the application of his reason and native ability.

If once we get behind the prejudices and tastes of this or that group of modem Christians, and try to discover what the great continental reformers like Luther and Calvin — yes, and like Zwingli, too, for be has been much misunderstood and misinterpreted by many of those who have claimed to interpret his teaching — not to mention the English reformers with their rather closer contact with the Catholic tradition, we shall find that with varying emphases and in varying idiom, they were all of them intent on saying something very like the summary outline which I have just given.

ism had to be combated ever and again by the great reformers who sought to make the monk a servant of mankind rather than a seeker after his own holiness.

However, this morning I found two new comments on the blog left by a reader named Dana — whom, I should mention at the outset, is not Dana Woldow, the San Francisco school food reformer who often comments here and is no great fan of Jamie.

An «agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well - meaning ideology» — in other words, by unexamined assumptions that spending time in school gardens will give children a better chance at getting an education and a high - school diploma.

«Eric Schneiderman has proven that he is a true reformer who will tackle corruption in government and in the private sector,» said Dutchess County Democratic Chairwoman Elisa Sumner in a statement released by the Manhattan lawmaker's campaign.

The charter thus became an important tool by which they could legitimise their fight and could join a long line of reformers who had used it in the same way.

He's a political reformer who was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five «Young Guns» in the NY State Assembly.

He is also supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera — a reformer who ousted Bronx legend Pedro Espada, recently sentenced to federal prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a non-profit he controlled ---- and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., the scion of another Bronx dynasty who parts ways with his infamous father on gay rights issues.

Sini, a Democrat who campaigned as a reformer, in his inaugural speech pledged that he and his prosecutors will be guided by a «culture of compliance with our legal and ethical obligations.»

By comparing his radicalism to Thatcher's he hopes to take on her mantle as a great reformer — someone who didn't just win, but changed the terms of the game.

A dentist who won a $ 7.7 million judgement against the state after beating Medicaid fraud charges brought by then - AG Spitzer warned voters about the would - be comptroller's «dark side» and said he doesn't believe Spitzer is reformer «at all.»

She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

Reformers like Samuels acknowledge they will likely be outspent by those who are opposed to holding a convention.

«History is filled with attempts by the establishment to keep reformers on the sidelines, including several Obama Alumni who have become targets of these politically charged attacks.

That permanent change to the structure of the county organization would be a victory for reformers and progressives, who complained that the number of those positions were expanded by Lopez in order to fend off challenges from rivals.

Instead reformers face the prospect of a Tory government led by a man who says change in the Lords is a «third term issue» and who is immovably committed to first - past - the - post for the Commons.

The administration's declarations directly contradict the statements made by the Moreland Commission's co-chairs, a bipartisan pair of respected district attorneys who maintained that the mandate was real, and not the latest in a series of let - downs Cuomo had sold to reformers.

The man who had been praised by the prime minister as a pioneering reformer responsible for a new generation of free schools lost his full cabinet post, leaving him to joke about his prospects.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

DeSena, who was promoted as an «outsider» by Queens Republican Party Chairman Phil Ragusa when he entered the race, is running as a reformer, hoping to bring a fresh eye to the tired storylines of Albany.

His efforts to exonerate prisoners who'd been wrongfully convicted were heralded by criminal justice reformers across the nation.

And they need to be aware that they are being watched and judged not just by the living public but by the ghosts of the reformers who went before, and in whose footsteps they are privileged to tread.

Rouhani, considered a moderate reformer, was under attack by his country's hardline conservatives, who opposed a potential deal.

The lengthy Times» excerpt tells the story of a teacher who fell in love with novel ways of teaching math that were pioneered by reformers in the United States and adopted in his native Japan, reportedly to great success.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Her stormy tenure is being closely watched by school reformers, the teacher unions, urban educators and Congressional Democrats, who variously believe that the chancellor is either the troubled district's last hope — or worst nightmare.)

Like the proverbial drunk who hunts for his keys near the lamppost, school reformers have searched for the educational keys to success by looking where the solutions are the easiest, not where the problems are most severe.

Watch out for righteous would - be reformers who dismiss educator concerns by pounding the table and insisting, «This is about kids, not adults!»

Bernard Lacour, a longtime school reformer who works with local school councils and consults with New Leaders on placement issues, believes that the obstacles thrown up by council dynamics and the predisposition for experience may be exacerbated by system politics, the advantages of incumbency, and fear among local councils that their candidates will be challenged by the board of education and their authority taken away from them.

Interestingly, almost all his reformers are Democrats, who face the problem of reconciling measures opposed by the teachers unions with the reality that these are the solidest supporters of Democratic legislators, governors, and presidents.

These organizations, staffed by many of the young reformers who are the primary audience for your book, spend their days in the trenches of political warfare.

What makes these volumes particularly valuable for professional reformers is that they are written by people who hadn't previously thought much about high school except as a piece of their pasts.

In that book, as on plenty of other occasions, I infuriated «would - be reformers» by suggesting that they were failing to listen to or acknowledge the insights of those who actually do the work.

In recent years, would - be reformers have goofed when imposing new teacher - evaluation systems while failing to identify or do right by all the teachers who play a critical role in their schools and classrooms.

Even worse is that these conditions are aided and abetted by defenders of traditional public education practices, who argue that the problems of American public education can not be solved until poverty is eradicated and parents and other reformers are kept out of schools.

Reformers are school district leaders who aim to make centralized, government - run educational systems work more effectively by imposing new rules and regulations concerning what school administrators and teachers can and can not do.

But they are supported by hundreds of thousands of educators across the country who are fed up with flawed evaluation systems being pushed by politicians and corporate education reformers in school districts across the country.

So reformers who routinely invoke the academic excellence of Europe and East Asia should understand the differences between European and East Asian - style curriculum - based exams and the minimum - competency exams being used by many states.