Sentences with phrase «did public rhetoric»

Only after I had begun to teach 30 years ago did public rhetoric begin to give even lip service to the notion that all children could and should be inventors of their own theories, critics of other people's ideas, makers of their own personal marks on the world.

Not exact matches

Even if you don't agree with his rhetoric, it's hard to disagree with the fact that Donald Trump has turned a sizeable inheritance into a public profile that leaves him months away from being the possible President - Elect.

In the face of attrition and growing public ambivalence, too many Christians lazily lean back on attack language and war rhetoric, especially with those deemed outsiders (i.e. non-Christians or Christians who don't fit within a narrow framework of appearance, conduct and belief system).

They need to do a better job and have to regain public trust, without falling back on facile demagogy and empty rhetoric.

It is not a single line that brought her down, it is everything she does coming together, for example she doesn't stand for anything, while she was running to become the democratic candidate she run as a center democrat, with promoting things as healthcare, doing more for public education and regulation of markets (Wallstreet in public speaking), but in the election she run a «strong America» line, with heavy militarism and free marked rhetoric.

It's great to spew rhetoric and spew mistruths, but it's not so easy to sit down and do your homework and figure out that someone is doing great public service.»

While Cameron ramps the rhetoric, Shadow rail minister Lillian Greenwood took to Twitter, insisting that the reason the public weren't buying HS2 because they don't understand the meaning of long words like «capacity» and «connectivity».

Under Ed's leadership, Labour too often combined tough left - wing rhetoric with policy proposals that the public simply did not think were credible.

Despite early hints and promises to do so, Cuomo never launched a public campaign for ethics reform, and his rhetoric in the session's final days suggested he had simply thrown up his hands.

«Voters should remember this fact as they weigh how much credibility to give the UFT's rhetoric on improving public schools: When given seven years to show New York how to craft a great school, it didn't even come close.»

The conversation behind the scenes does not reflect the public rhetoric, he concluded.

Yet, much like his spotty record on property rights, Donnelly's anti-union rhetoric doesn't match up with his record, which includes financial support from and sponsored bills for the very public employee unions that he loves to hate.

But how can I denounce any group's ability exercise their 1st Amendment right when I spoke at length about honoring our great society and our Constitution But I do not support any group that uses violent and discriminatory rhetoric, but how can I limit their god given rights to public assembly and free expression.

«Ramarley's family and the public still don't know whether Haste is facing charges for the full extent of his misconduct or whether the 12 plus other officers who engaged in misconduct will face accountability,» Colon added, saying it was time for «more than just rhetoric.»

We need to replace fossil fuels in a hurry, here in Europe, and this has little to do with climate but a lot — in public rhetoric - with the «global warming «threat.

As for analysis, Mark Thompson wrote a brilliant column on public rhetoric, populism, and «authenticism» throughout history and how they were revealed in the 2016 campaign; David Fahrenthold did some stellar gritty, shoe - leather reporting on President - elect Trump's philanthropy; Maureen Dowd wrote on the campaign's «fear and insecurity»; and Molly Ball wrote on the principles and posturing of Ted Cruz.

Minnesota governor Mark Dayton also addressed the throng, tossing out well - worn edu - blob rhetoric like, ``... many people did not know how poorly the nation funds public education.»

Despite the political rhetoric coming out of ConnCAN and other charter school industry front groups, Trinity's Robert Cotto reveals that Connecticut's charter schools do not outperform local public schools.

It's the people who really care about ALL students and refuse to let rhetoric and random celebrities (who do NOT have children in school, let alone public school) drive reform.

My students began to recognize the rhetoric designed to persuade the voting public, but that did nothing to further the quality of the education they received.

We never expect such actions to happen in our public schools, particularly in the suburbs of Denver, and when they do it results in a range of thoughts, rhetoric, and actions.

But regardless of the false information and rhetoric coming from the Malloy administration, parents not only have the fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair testing program, they should strongly consider doing just that as a way to protect their children, Connecticut's teachers and our state's historic commitment to local control of public education.

As David Berliner and Bruce Biddle did almost 20 years ago, she argues that the public rhetoric of school failure is a distortion of the record that underestimates the successes of public schools and misidentifies their problems.

It's one of those cases where the public rhetoric and the research that's been done really over quite a long period of time are entirely at odds.

In this case, the issue isn't which major party candidate for governor will do more damage to teachers and public education, but whether the candidates and their supporters are accountable for the rhetoric and claims they make during this campaign season.

Appropriation does not stop there, however, for #makeamericagreatagain thematically rubs up against the demagoguery prevalent in the current American social and political landscape and rhetoric espoused by primary candidates to engender fear in the American public.

His rigorous background in rhetoric would serve him and the abstract expressionists well, as he was able to tour the country giving speeches that articulated to the public what it was that he and his friends were doing in New York.

Of course they are not living up to their own rhetoric, they never do, but they recognised where public opinion is on the subject.

As Ken Ward, the former deputy director of Greenpeace USA and an environmental strategist has so acutely observed, we must «stop seeking and celebrating dinky achievements» because «nothing that we are doing, nor even seriously contemplating, comes anywhere near such a massive transformation [as is necessary], yet every actor on the political stage... downplays the terrible realities and trumpets small - scale solutions wrapped in upbeat rhetoric... We are racing toward the end of the world and have no plan of escape, but it is considered impolite to acknowledge that fact in public.»

And did you also notice how during the Ebola «outbreak» in the U.S. it was l those Dem politicos who were using the precautionary principle and wasteful» abundance of caution» rhetoric to overhype the danger to the American public... you know, Dem politicod like Chris Christ.....

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Just because the public can't decipher jurisprudence and the rhetoric of the legal establishment doesn't mean they won't comprehend that they are being deceived.