Sentences with phrase «challenge to the status quo»

The district has shown that elected school boards need not be incompatible with challenges to the status quo.

Liberal white males are more accepting of government regulations and challenges to the status quo because it fits in their political ideology, he said.

The Trump Administration is staring down a half - dozen deadlines on trade policy that will create a moment of truth for the White House, which has so far opted for long - term investigations and renegotiations over immediate challenges to the status quo.

But I try to bear patiently and lovingly with them in appreciation for the courage of their stalwart challenge to a status quo which rendered choice... an option for few women.

In this open challenge to the status quo, he promotes an alternative strategy he calls «natural security»: the idea that we can model our own strategies on the survival techniques of highly successful organisms.

Professor Patricia Albjerg Graham, former dean of the Ed School, notes that the past 100 years in U.S. education have seen at least two waves of new schools that swept across the education landscape when dissatisfaction mounted challenges to the status quo.

Because professional development has historically taken the form of coursework, advanced degree programs, and workshops that are led by teacher education faculty, this change will be another stiff challenge to the status quo.

Entrepreneurs and innovators can offer bold and creative challenges to a status quo that is unacceptable.

«On one hand, the federal government is saying, «Be bold,» which implies significant challenge to the status quo, which then tends to be disruptive and generate resistance,» said S. Paul Reville, the education secretary in Massachusetts, where the American Federation of Teachers affiliate has revoked its support of the state's second - round application over teacher issues.

Within a relatively short period of time, proposals inundated the school district, each offering challenges to our status quo.

In the art of the last 100 years, pranks and jokes have gone from sophomoric donkey - tail peinture to ever more sophisticated foolery, assuming many of the permutations of art making today: performance, activism, and street art, subversive gestures and in - your - face challenges to the status quo.

The show would certainly provide a needed challenge to the status quo, as opposed to the Close exhibition which only serves to confirm it.

Some even changed their names, like Michael West, in an effort to combat the era's sexism, or incorporated into their work tacit challenges to the status quo, as Elaine de Kooning did in her «Faceless Men» series.

Mary Cassatt's Woman in Black at the Opera (1880) depicting an active, attentive unaccompanied woman and Alice Neel's nude Self Portrait painted at 80 - years old (1980) are titillating challenges to the status quo.

The handset offered a credible challenge to the status quo with impressive specs at an even more impressive price tag, and although it had a few faults, it was one of the most impressive devices of the year.

This drive towards inclusion and a sort of cosmopolitanism, evidenced in both of these artists and, indeed, the whole roll call, makes for an interesting challenge to the status quo.

I've come across a strange assumption in church circles that questions and challenges to the status quo are distinctly unChristian.

Such an action denoted rebellion and a challenge to the status quo.

Because the reality is, some folks benefit from the status quo, and it is in their best interest to characterize every challenge to the status quo as wholly negative and a threat to Christian unity.

Meyerson argues, however, that the most important difference between the two challenges to the status quo and how unions perceive them involves the personalities of the incumbents:

«I'm filing this summons to take a stand not just for me, but for anyone considering a challenge to the status quo in politics.

Any challenge to this status quo encounters a buzz saw of opposition from parents and teachers who like small classes.

The third case shows how solidarity requires meaningful action that is in line with a challenge to the status quo and an aspect of sacrifice.

Projects developed out of three Guerrilla Girls» workshops will be among the challenges to the status quo, along with other student contributions.

Activism and challenges to the status quo are important, but I think the best odds of progress come if some young people also choose to work within the corporate system and become the next generation of trustees, not just of their universities, but also of humanity's broader set of assets.

Our workflows are ripe for examination and measurement and challenge to the status quo.

«That's the very nature of public interest work: it is law reforming, a challenge to the status quo.»