Sentences with phrase «for social reformers»

Recreating the protests of AIDS campaigners in the 1990s, the film holds lessons for social reformers today

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From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty of individuals to pursue private good is the major moral concern of the new reformers and for this reason their ethical views can fairly be seen as a variety of the contractarian social ethic now increasingly characteristic of political society.

To be fair to Kierkegaard, he acknowledges the good intentions of the social reformers» drive toward equality, although «worldly equality, even if it were possible, is not Christian equality».20 He criticizes the caste system.21 Despite these concessions to the need for social justice Kierkegaard's doctrine remains inadequate.

The philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham had a more sophisticated (and honest) understanding of how power operates in his design for apanoptical prison to control inmates.

Journalist and social reformer, Masterman was elected in the 1906 Liberal landslide for West Ham North and was re-elected in January 1910.

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

What if, for instance, «social and emotional intelligence» — knowing how to relate to others — is more important than many reformers have been willing to acknowledge?

Pondiscio is speaking for them when he complains «[l] ike the proverbial frog in a pot, education reformers on the political right find themselves coming to a slow boil in the cauldron of social justice activism.»

Education reformers should look for ways to nurture existing social capital and help it grow.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

Social reformers advanced the common school as the solution to these strains and claimed that the need for common schools was no less than the very survival of the nation.24

In fact, the most well - known purveyor of the philosophy is probably the Knowledge Is Power Program's (KIPP) charter schools, which are frequently pointed to by education reformers as the model for the future of uplifting poor children, and which distinguish themselves in part by rating those students that don't dropout on their «character,» an amorphous concept KIPP defines as «grit, zest, self - control, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity.»

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

In 1906 they formed the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education (NSPIE) to lobby on behalf of vocational education and to coordinate the efforts of supporting groups, including the American Federation of Labor, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Education Association, and social welfare reformers.

The article, written by New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Sara Mead, urges education reformers and PK advocates to join forces to support a vision for children's learning ---- physical, social, and emotional development as well as academics ---- that extends from Prekindergarten through Third Grade in a seamless progression.

In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare — mostly church handouts and town asylums — into government - run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the «hereditary defectives» of the past.

By the way, thanks Mr. Bush, for being such a reformer of Social Security and Medicare.

The core philosophy of the school was rooted in the ideas of John Dewey (1859 - 1952)-- US philosopher, educator and social reformer known for his call for a shift from authoritarian classrooms and rote memorization to student - centered models that supported a democratic learning environment.

It is a wholly different question from the one a social reformer would ask, namely: how can the living arrangements for the incapacitated be improved?

The health sector is also increasingly speaking up, together with human rights advocates and social policy and law reformers, about the urgent need for governments to tackle the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Reformers proposed social and behavioral science schooling for lawyers and judges who had received only adversarial training in their legal education.

Reformers reminded the courts that the state and federal court systems had assumed responsibility for providing services to help with the economic as well as psychological and social consequences of divorce.