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«Today's education system exists to build intelligence, but this book highlights that there is an even bigger need to develop a strong reasoning and judgment mechanism — «the intellect» — when it comes to business and relationships.

One of the appealing features of a 529 savings plan is that money invested grows free of federal income tax when withdrawn for qualified higher education expenses such as tuition, books, and room and board.

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

The book is at its best, as is often the case with books on education, when it is most specific.

A similar confusion to which Protestantism is even more prone ensues when the Bible is so made the center of theological education that the book takes the place of the God who speaks, and love of the book replaces devotion to the One who makes himself known with its aid.

For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts — the «great books» — as a vital element of a liberal arts education during a time when demands for multiculturalism led to the dismantling of a number of traditional programs of study.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

A man with less education than I have quotes a parable from a so - called holy book written, who know when, by who knows who, and tries to say that is what God intended.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

In Sunday's Times, Judith Shulevitz reviews Kristin Luker's new book on the sex - ed wars, When Sex Goes to School, which argues... well, here's how Shulevitz puts it: Only toward the end of a 300 - odd page book about sex education in America does Kristin Luker permit herself a....

Got ta love it when real world education sets you straight after all that hard book learnin».

5.2 Read home education parenting resources, books and internet articles, attend seminars and workshops and ask for advice when you need it.

Pope's book is a kind of manual for how to reconfigure secondary education at a time when many schools are looking for ways to dial back the intensity of high school life.

Autonomous / eclectic education will often include curriculum, or text - books, when appropriate.

Nixon says, «When parents read a book or take an adult education class, they're modeling that everyone continues to learn — which is one way to instill a positive learning attitude in their children.»

They figure that childbirth education isn't really useful when you can read lots of great books and learn anything you want to on the Internet.

About Blog I believe education is for life and not just in the classroom, but in stacks of books, messy projects, adventures, cooking experiments, random questions leading to library excursions and Internet searches, the daily grind, and even lazy days when boredom makes way for creativity.

She earned her master's in education from the University of Illinois at Chicago and was working as a preschool teacher when she had an idea for a book.

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Most of the students in this book, either through their own drivenness or through the interventions of adults — either parents, teachers, or related services people, therapists and so forth — develop the strategies they needed to be successful: to be able to access education at a high level; to know how to handle the heavy reading load when they read at a very low rate; to learn how to manage pain, which was the case with one of the students in the book who has chronic pain due to his physical disabilities; or to learn how to manage anxiety, which is the case of two of the people in the book.

When I first read those words, in a 2004 New York Times book review by Samuel Freedman, it was a Eureka moment — to know that the great civil rights leader appreciated not just the significance of an education but the dangers of partnering with an education system that was still very much a white - run institution.

«Monmouthshire Local Education Authority department also recognise the importance of this and make sure that the schools are aware of this element of the risk assessment when booking trips abroad.»

«Every time I do this assignment, I am amazed at the enthusiasm of almost every single student, the incredible insight some of them have, and the pride that they all have when they finish and I bind their books,» Seiler - Phillips tells Education World.

Among the book's more «robust» conclusions, to use the economists» term, is that the high Swedish expenditure on adult education (which is very well developed in Sweden, as a resource for unemployed workers and as a way of upgrading or changing one's credentials) is not warranted by its returns: But how could it be, when, we learn, «individuals received student pay [all students are paid in Sweden — part of the commitment to equality] at the level of unemployment benefits, which in Sweden replace up to 80 percent of forgone earnings.»

The book documents the rise of public - sector unionism in an era when private - sector unions are dying; exposes the political fragility of school boards; and, inadvertently, reveals that the power of unions extends well beyond the bargaining table, even to the point of shaping education research itself.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

Most of the Kitengesa library's users are secondary school students, and they are eloquent about how it has helped their education and given them a measure of independence: «When teachers don't cover the whole syllabus, you can find a book and read it,» one student told me.

Perfect for Primary / Elementary / Physical Education Teachers who are looking for something PE related which can be done when it's raining outside or the school hall has been double booked!

As he explained when addressing International Education Policy (IEP) students last week, Wood took the comment as a challenge and promptly left his job as a senior executive associate for Microsoft, promising to return to Nepal with books.

By the time children enter formal education, it is estimated that they know the meaning of about 5,000 to 6,000 words when they hear them, and can probably recognize in print a handful of easily memorized «sight words» — words like «the» and «to» and «stop» that pop up often in books and on signs and menus.

Talk of disruptive innovation in K — 12 education took off when Christensen's 2008 book, Disrupting Class, used the theory to conclude that online learning is poised to transform K — 12 schooling.

Gardner revolutionized the fields of psychology and education more than 30 years ago when he published his 1983 book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,» which detailed a new model of human intelligence that went beyond the traditional view that there was a single kind that could be measured by standardized tests...

Perkins's 2008 book, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education, presents a new and practical research - based teaching framework in which he describes teaching as being more effective when students are introduced to the «whole game» instead of isolated disciplines.

The debate over what Apple's electronic textbooks will mean for our formal education system comes at a time when we have not yet determined what tablet technology and the availability of electronic books (or «e-books») can mean for children's learning at home and other informal learning environments.

When Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor David Perkins looked back at his childhood little league and «backyard baseball» experiences, he found the perfect metaphor for the set of teaching concepts presented in his 2008 book, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education.

Education World: Your book, High School Hazing: When Rites Become Wrongs, discusses the causes and consequences of hazing at all levels of society.

They fear the possible end to traditional print books altogether, that too much control over our children's education will be in the hands of Apple, that outfitting each student with an iPad and requisite IT support will create additional financial burdens on school budgets, and that existing access gaps may be widened when some schools can not afford the technology.

After reading this book, one will understand why it was that candidate Obama, when seeking advice from the sharpest minds in education, turned to Dr. Linda Darling - Hammond.»

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As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

We were becoming empty nesters, and she claimed that all I ever did when I had down time was read education books.

Longo says the idea for the book started when he was a doctoral student and would eat lunch in Conroy Commons with senior lecturer Harold «Doc» Howe, a former commissioner of education in the Johnson administration.

I can only imagine that when educators discover Brooks» new book on this subject, they will rush to incorporate all manner of social and emotional education into the school day.

In our book, we point out that the research methods, most valued by American researchers, which involve the random assignment of research subjects to «treatments,» can not be used when researching entire national education systems, because it is not possible to randomly assign national populations to the national education systems of other countries.

(Irving Buchen, Education and Business Management Consultant and faculty member at Capella University) At a time when education is too frequently defined in traditional, outmoded ways, this book describes an excitingly different model of sEducation and Business Management Consultant and faculty member at Capella University) At a time when education is too frequently defined in traditional, outmoded ways, this book describes an excitingly different model of seducation is too frequently defined in traditional, outmoded ways, this book describes an excitingly different model of schooling.

In his book Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in Education, author Jim Carl noted that there was a moment when it seemed that conservatives and liberals might converge in agreement on the concept of compensatory vouchers.

Never knowing when to quit, NEA recently posted an article about Barbara Miner, who just wrote a book about Milwaukee called Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half - Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City.

So, now, when Concepción hires an international teacher, she sends them two books by Harry Wong; the books introduce American education and include classroom management tips.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards — when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment — can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

At a time when corporate reformists are more interested in making money off of education than actually attempting to improve educational quality for all students, books like this are critical in helping us decipher the truth from the perpetual myths that have become the bedrock of the reform movement.