Sentences with phrase «education in a democratic society»

... From this perspective we can best understand Dewey's lifelong involvement in the theory and practice of education in a democratic society» (DD 52).

I am hopeful that we can sit alongside each other and do the hard work of answering the questions most central to our democracy: What is the purpose of public education in a democratic society?

They also need to reflect on how those practices contribute to the larger purposes of education in a democratic society.

Public education in a democratic society is based on the principle that every child is of equal and incalculable value.

Not exact matches

Hurrah for Theodore Forstmann's impassioned and tightly reasoned plea for placing parents in charge of education and for allowing the principles of democratic capitalism to guide this vital sector of our society -LRB-» Putting Parents in Charge,» August / September).

From a democratic standpoint, manners and education in manners are likely to appear suspect because of their usual association with aristocratic societies.

A consultant to the Fund for the Republic's study of Religion in a Democratic Society, Mr. Clancy also serves as Education Director of the Church Peace Union, an interfaith organization with headquarters in New York City.

Even if the justices were able to see on the basis of the French achievement that the political divisions they fear from religious controversy are not inescapable in today's democratic society, their own need for consistency as they fashion the developing common law would still prevent them from reversing themselves soon enough to enable the American people to take effective official action to save nonpublic education.

Character Education: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticEducation: The Policy on Quality Character Education (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticEducation (2004) recommends that schools adopt secular character education programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democraticeducation programs to teach fairness, trustworthiness, citizenship, and self - restraint in order to help students learn and foster the well being of democratic society.

In a wide - ranging speech on «ending systemic racism,» Hillary Clinton presented a $ 125 billion plan to assist poor and minority communities with job training, education and re-entering society after incarceration, part of an effort to speak directly to African - American voters as the Democratic primary contest heads to South Carolina.

The debate was organised by the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE), with support from the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD - Ghana), Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), and Coalition for Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO), and its partner organizations towards next month's general election at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region.

Allen runs the Center for Education Reform; Smarick is affiliated with Bellwether Education Partners and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and served in the George W. Bush administration; Cody is a former Oakland teacher who blogs at edweek.org; and Klonsky is a former Students for a Democratic Society leader and an activist in the Chicago small - schools movement.

This concept, he says, «emphasizes that an adequate education must (1) prepare students to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society; (2) relate to contemporary, not archaic educational needs; (3) be pegged to a «more than minimal» level; and (4) focus on opportunity rather than outcome.»

For instance, to explain the meaning of «to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society» he says that «there is widespread agreement that an adequate system of education is one that «ensures that a child is equipped to participate in political affairs and compete with his or her peers in the labor market.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

«Education and the Civic Purposes of Schools» will bring together an international array of academics and policymakers to evaluate theoretical approaches and to compare specific experiences in strengthening the values and skills that enable participation in democratic societies.

After all, if the public schools continued to underperform, the nation's confidence in public education itself — which to Shanker was both a positive democratic force in society and the root of union leverage — would dissipate.

Indeed, one could make a strong argument that any outsized influence that teachers unions exercise in school board elections provides a nice enhancement of democratic decisionmaking on education policy because teachers, as much as any other group in society, can serve as powerful advocates for those Americans who can not vote: schoolchildren.

Reflecting on the value and significance of education in the globalized era of the 21st century requires tackling global dynamics (economic, political, cultural, social, educational, etc.) with new forms of cooperation and democratic social organization to respond to the challenge of governance in a cosmopolitan society.

It is a basic purpose of education to prepare young people to actively participate in our democratic society.

Researchers and leaders for social justice, then, seek to define the theories and practices of leadership that are vital to creating greater freedom, opportunity, and justice for all citizens — citizens who, through public education, are better able to participate in and sustain a free, civil, multicultural, and democratic society.

Fifteen years ago, our book, Charter Schools in Action, foresaw this innovative governance and delivery system for education as a hopeful path to stronger student achievement and as an engine «to recreate the democratic underpinnings of public education and rejoin schools to a vigorous civil society.»

In a democratic society people are free to be as conservative or liberal as their intelligence and conscience lead, but institutions built to nurture and sustain such a society are not, nor are their programs.Whether we wish to admit it or not, every education system tries to produce a certain kind of human being, attempts to develop in people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain wayIn a democratic society people are free to be as conservative or liberal as their intelligence and conscience lead, but institutions built to nurture and sustain such a society are not, nor are their programs.Whether we wish to admit it or not, every education system tries to produce a certain kind of human being, attempts to develop in people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain wayin people dispositions to think, feel, and act in certain wayin certain ways.

«Adequately funded, student - centered public schools will provide, in a safe and supportive environment, a comprehensive education for the whole child and will prepare all of America's children for a lifetime of learning in a diverse, democratic society and an interdependent global economy.»

It may not be politically feasible at the national level, but local authorities, teacher leaders, and policy makers may be in a position to think of creating policies that offer quality education while still ensuring that students have the liberty to reach their own unique potential, the core strength of a democratic society.

The debates about the role of schooling in a democratic society, the lives of children and families, and the relationship between schools and society were relegated to the margins as no longer relevant to the business plan to reinvent American education.

Here we have the last and biggest tension between education and capitalism in a democratic society.

Founded in 1901 on the tenets of progressive education, the school currently enrolls 940 students and employs 200 dedicated faculty and staff members who, in addition to assistant teachers, substitute teachers and coaches, work together to ensure that the School lives up to its Mission to «educate students to think and act with empathy, courage and clarity as responsible citizens and leaders in a democratic society and global community.»

It would be nice if Hillary Clinton reexamined her education agenda and reflected on the importance of America's public schools in a free, democratic society.

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«It is crucial for a democratic society to provide all of its schoolchildren with fair access to an unsegregated education,» Ellen A. Peters, then chief justice of the state's High Court, wrote in the majority opinion in July 1996.

Character education, or any kind of education, would look very different if we began with other objectives — if, for example, we were principally concerned with helping children become active participants in a democratic society (or agents for transforming a society into one that is authentically democratic).

In this view, education should immerse students in the continuum of ideas of a democratic societIn this view, education should immerse students in the continuum of ideas of a democratic societin the continuum of ideas of a democratic society.

Unlike any other pillar of our society, public education is the only institution that reaches 90 % of every new generation, is governed by public authority, and was founded with the explicit mission of preparing young people to be thoughtful and active participants in a democratic society.

The Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston, a nonprofit whose mission is to transform schools to ensure all students achieve and contribute to a democratic society, participated in the Emerging Harbormaster Network.

Our second - level schools aim to provide an education that will enable all students to contribute meaningfully to their communities, embrace the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a democratic society and develop the knowledge and skills necessary to live their lives and to build their careers in the 21st century.»

A few years ago, at a joint session of the Boards of Elementary and Secondary Education and of Higher Education, Commissioner Chester made an articulate and effective presentation of the need to expand our high school graduation requirements, reflected in the definition of college and career readiness, to include the competencies necessary to participate in a democratic society.

Last summer, as he opened a convening of education organizations which had responded to a call for innovative designs to assess student and school performance, he reflected on the important role of ordinary citizens and organizations in civil society had to helping educational institutions advance their democratic goals.

A vanguard organization of the hippie movement, Students for a Democratic Society, wrote a manifesto including democratic student involvement throughout the public education systeDemocratic Society, wrote a manifesto including democratic student involvement throughout the public education systedemocratic student involvement throughout the public education system in 1962.

In a democratic society, education is a public good, and there are benefits to everyone if all students receive a high - quality education.

The connections between graduation and life after high school, e.g. college, work, and income levels, should be made clear, as well as the relationship between public schools, basic education and the democratic society we live in.

We play different roles in society, but our work impacts one another in that we both encourage education and the active participation — especially of young people — in democratic decision - making and governance.

Influenced by the utopian ideals of the progressive education movement, it placed the arts at the center of liberal arts education and believed that in doing so it could better educate citizens for participation in a democratic society.