Sentences with phrase «called liberal education»

At the present time much of what is called liberal education in the arts and sciences is organized as a collection of specialized studies.

Not exact matches

For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to restore genuine liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.

Providing a good education for our children, especially those with least opportunity, is, as the Progressive Call insisted, «not a Republican or a Democratic issue, not a conservative or liberal cause, not a pro-business or pro-union agenda.

And there's less real «liberal education» than ever (as a percentage of the whole called «higher education,» at least).

He also takes a «fun» liberal arts course called The Education of Exceptional Children.

An extra # 2bn in education spending on Britain's most disadvantaged four - to six - year - olds will be a key Liberal Democrat demand in the event of a hung parliament, rather than their traditional call for electoral reform, Nick Clegg says.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto recognised the need to support vocational education and invest in apprenticeships, as well as calling for public sector organisations becoming living wage employers.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat AM for North Wales and the party's Spokesperson on Education, is today calling on the Welsh Government to provide certainty to schools in Wales by confirming how long it will continue to fund the Pupil Deprivation Grant.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have welcomed a report published today that calls for a complete overhaul of sex and relationships education in Wales.

Nice to see what a liberal education begets — F - bombs from this totally inept and useless so - called senator.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam put out a new ad Thursday promising to strengthen vocational education in the Sunshine State and bashing so - called «liberal elites» who don't respect trade workers.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, has called on the Welsh Labour government to use the money which will come to Wales as a result of today's school meals announcement in England to be used to fund a similar scheme.

That is why the Welsh Liberal Democrats are calling for a national concessionary scheme for young people aged 16 - 18, as well as those in full time education.»

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrats Shadow Education Minister, has called on the new Education Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educatioEducation Minister, has called on the new Education Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educatioEducation Minister, Huw Lewis, to thoroughly assess how looked after children are being cared for within the Welsh educationeducation system.

The Morrill Act, which in 1862 created the mechanism that has funded many of the nation's great public universities, called for institutions that would «promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.»

L. A. Williams, an education professor from the University of California — Berkeley, wrote in a 1944 book that most American high - school students of the era were simply «incapable of learning so - called liberal subjects.»

Similar sentiments have been echoed by Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur, who said: «I would urge the government to heed the calls of teaching unions, teachers and parents to drop plans for national standardised testing in primary schools.»

Liberal Democrat education spokesman, John Pugh, called on Ms Greening to «put a stop to damaging proposals to scrap Qualified Teacher Status and parent governors, as well as plans to vastly increase numbers of academies».

Conservative Education Minister Liz Truss has rejected Liberal Democrat calls for tighter controls on free schools in England.

He said the «best way to deliver on liberal values is to get behind Scotland's liberal force», and called for a pupil premium to help reverse decline in a «once leading education system».

The Scottish Liberal Democrats have also singled out education as an important policy area, calling for a «pupil premium» to commit additional funding to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

After all, it was centrist Democrat reformers (along with liberal Democrat reform allies) who pushed the administration early on to call for a speedy reauthorization of No Child, and stood by over the past year as Duncan and his team at the U.S. Department of Education have engaged in what can be best called a misinformation campaign that has denigrated No Child's accountability measures as being broken.

In the Commons, Liberal Democrat education spokesman David Laws called the situation a «shambles».

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Congressman Jared Polis can call himself a progressive, a liberal or anything else he thinks will persuade targeted audiences to support him and his fundraising efforts but the so - called «Progressive» Congressman is among the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education Democrats in the nation.

Conservative firebrands like Glenn Beck, Phyllis Schlafly, and Michelle Malkin have denounced it as «ObamaCore» and as a leftist plot, while liberal education expert Diane Ravitch and Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis have called it anti-teacher.

Liberal Democrats education spokesman Aled Roberts also welcomed the review but called for «a period of stability» once it was completed.

Martha calls her work «a continuous liberal arts education» because she is always learning something new from her many interesting, talented clients.

One of YCER's first steps will be to address what Combs calls the «lack of education» among conservative Americans who may have tuned out the energy debate because they see it as a strictly liberal agenda.

Call it a J.D. or an LL.B., but your average law degree remains more a liberal arts education than a graduate or professional instruction, and certainly is not preparation to practise law.

Tom Mighell: Well, that's as good an explanation as I have ever heard, so I am not going to add to it with my liberal arts education anymore than I have to, except to say that Dennis pointed me to a podcast to listen to saying that if you can listen to this podcast you will be in great shape for us recording and I have to disagree that the podcast he sent me to actually confused me even more, but I will say that the overall podcast and it's called «Unchained», it's from Forbes Magazine and they have guests on to talk about both Bitcoin and Blockchain.