Sentences with phrase «education activist»

Parenting education activist / volunteer, author of Where the Heart Listens, a handbook for parents and their allies in a global society, interested in your experience in seeking parenting education and support

Ted Dintersmith, author and education activist, explains how the Common Core and standardized tests are failing to prepare children for the future.

High school CS teacher, Education blogger, author, CS education activist, speaker, husband & father of teachers Frequency about 2 posts per week Since Nov 2005 Website blog.acthompson.net + Follow Facebook fans - n / a.

LIVES Peggy Cooper Cafritz, the Washington, D.C., art collector and education activist who just published a book about her life in art, dies Feb. 18.

Acting the Words is Enacting the World is a two week long experiment in radical education which will mobilize Brazilian popular education activist Augusto Boal's techniques of Theater of the Oppressed to prompt students to engage with the economy.

Education Activist Peggy Robertson addressed the critical importance of school librarians recently in her blog, Peg with Pen.

While the action didn't get a lot of news coverage in Connecticut, fellow public education activist and commentator, Wendy Lecker, did explained the situation in detail in a commentary piece published in the Stamford Advocate and posted here at Wait, What?

Some of the test opposition is coming locally through Elyria school district teacher Dawn Neely - Randall, whose criticisms of tests have landed in Washington Post blogs and also caught the ear education activist Diane Ravitch.

-LSB-...] Weber, a local education activist, wrote up a great (opinionated) synopsis of what happened in the latest school board race, and how the no - charters beat the -LSB-...]

Marie is a mother, artist, teacher, education activist, former NJ State Legislature candidate and is «that» teacher in the infamous Chris Christie You - Tube video of the thug bashing teachers.

To be fair, I would ask you to conduct due diligence and read what Mercedes Schneider, a New Orleans teacher, education activist, and the author of three books on «education reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public Education?

Through this ongoing fight, I became an education activist.

District One incumbent James Garvey is opposed by Lee Barrios, retired special education teacher from Mandeville, and Sharon Hewitt an education activist in the St. Tammany Parish public school system.

Yohuru Williams is an Historian, professor, an education activist.

Inglewood education activist D'Artagnan Scorza says people he's spoken with are looking beyond the state takeover.

«Since it was so predictable that this massive statist bill would lead to an even greater federal power - grab than we've seen before, a cynic might suspect Sen. Alexander is playing to the cameras with his outrage,» education activist and fellow at American Principles Project Jane Robbins told Breitbart News after the hearing.

William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), education activist, and bestselling author of Teaching the Taboo: Courage and Imagination in the Classroom (with Rick Ayers), To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition, and To Teach: The Journey, in Comics (with Ryan Alexander - Tanner).

Somehow, I got included in an email conversation between Ed Johnson, well - known education activist from Atlanta, Georgia, and a group of professors who study education issues.

Altorice Frazier, KIPP NJ parent, board member, and Newark education activist stated: «Public charter schools have been a lifeline to children in Newark and are putting our students on the road to and through college.

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He became a public education activist while fighting for his two daughters who are on the autism spectrum.

The case, brought forward two years ago by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and education activist Dave Welsh, challenged the court to weigh teacher job protections against a student's constitutional right to equal access to a quality education.

The 71 - year - old has lost about 29 pounds, bringing the 5 - foot - 9 inch education activist to a mere 132 pounds — all for the sake of America's schoolchildren.

Longtime education activist Cathy Reilly, president of the Senior High Alliance of Parents, Principals and Educators, wondered why the chancellor needs to bring in outside organizations to improve the city's schools.

Leonie Haimson's career as a New York City education activist started when her older child was assigned to a first - grade class with 28 other students.

Many others, led by education activist Diane Ravitch, are dismayed by Common Core's corporate backers.

The Education Activist: From Student to Teacher is the ongoing blog by student and activist Mel Katz who is studying education in New Jersey.

Mark Mishler has been a public school parent and education activist in Albany, NY, since 1994.

Citizen Stewart is a writer and education activist.

This has been hailed as a major achievement of the new legislation, but, as education activist Jeff Bryant noted: «It's a sign of dysfunction, rather than a triumph of bipartisanship, to see officials in Washington, D.C. celebrating legislation that significantly curtails the influence of officials in Washington, D.C.»

This creates concern why public education is now controlled by two private organizations,» says Gretchen Logue, a Missouri education activist and one of the co-founders of Truth in American Education, a network of activists and organizations opposing Common Core.

Local conservative education activist Cindy Reagor has lead a crusade against constructivism, objecting that at constructivism's core «is the idea that everything is subjective and that there is no truth.»

Moving away from fiction, Guinness World Records 2016 is in eighth spot on the list of most borrowed nonfiction (all library users), and I Am Malala — the 2012 memoir of education activist Malala Yousafzai, aimed at readers aged 10 - 18 — is at number 10 in the list of most borrowed biographies.

At only 18 years old, she has already become a New York Times best - selling author, an international spokesperson for human rights and education activist...

Actress, education activist and gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon.

Actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, who is challenging incumbent Gov. Andrew Cuomo, declared her support for legalizing marijuana amid a nationwide movement to legalize cannabis.

An education activist in New York for years, Ms. Nixon has also been studying up on other policy areas, including transportation, according to people familiar with her activities.

Actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon, a gubernatorial candidate challenging Gov. Andrew Cuomo, says legalizing marijuana is vital to «ending a key front in the racist war on drugs» and will help raise additional revenue for New York State.

The education activist, actress and close friend of the governor's nemesis Mayor de Blasio, leveled numerous slams against Cuomo at her roll - out in a Pentecostal church in an area home mainly to minority voters, with whom Cuomo's last challenger, Zephyr Teachout failed to gain traction.

Possible Democratic challengers are former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon.

The governor outpaces the actress and education activist among both men and women, in every region of the state and across every age group.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, an ally of actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon and foe of Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been silent on the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon speaks at Mayor Bill de Blasio's inauguration ceremony in 2014.

Local education activist, Jesse Mojica was named the new executive director for Family and Community Engagement in the city Department of Education.

Cynthia Nixon, an education activist better known for her work in «Sex and the City,» announced her candidacy for governor on Twitter on Monday.

Former Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and actress and education activist Cynthia Nixon — who recently called for «bluer Democrats» in New York — are currently weighing bids.

When actor and activist Cynthia Nixon held her first news conference as a gubernatorial candidate, at a Pentecostal church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, she was introduced by Zakiyah Ansari, an education activist and longtime ally.

But it also served a dual political purpose: It jabbed at the tradition of mayoral control of New York City's schools, and it also allowed the governor to take an aggressive stand on the issue of educational equity — a marquee issue of Ms. Nixon, a longtime education activist who has placed the issue squarely at the heart of the early stages of her campaign.

«While no longer a candidate, I will continue to passionately and relentlessly pursue a reform education agenda as an education activist, a columnist and blogger, and as the co-owner of the influential political news organization,» Allon said in a statement.

Hawkins said he recruited NYC education activist and socialist Brian Jones as his running mate in order to focus attention on schools.