Sentences with phrase «ideas of school as»

We'll all be better served if we permanently move past ideas of school as a uniform experience meant to transfer information.

With the growing trend of school gardens, «the idea of a school as a venue in which to advance a social agenda has reached rock bottom,» she concludes.

Of course, the logical culmination of the idea of school as job - skills provider is that we would do away with school altogether and just have apprenticeships.

However, school research need not be predicated only on the idea of schools as complex organizations.

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The idea was proposed by a Nebraska high school student named Shelbi Klingsporn as part of a private education program partnership with NASA and is now being supported by Medtronic.

To give you an idea of the training required for this designation, «the pass rate for the exam to become a CFP certificant is about the same as the pass rate on the bar exam that law school grads are required to take in order to practice law,» she explains.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

Gen Z is the first generation to grow up in an economy where the idea of becoming a social media influencer makes just as much sense as going to school and getting a business degree.

The idea is an old one, dating at least as far back as the 1980s, to the work of R. Edward Freeman, now a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, whom many consider the father of «stakeholder theory.»

This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

As a college graduate schooled in accounting, working on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was not my idea of a job, much less a career.

I love the idea of getting kids involved in back - to - school shopping, as it often increases their excitement about the upcoming year.

«Listening to what other people are doing can spark an idea or conversation, and other opportunities can arise as well,» says the CEO of Alpharetta, Ga. - based School Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school bSchool Growth, which provides professional development programming for schools and school bschool boards.

Such ideas call to question entrepreneurial education as an institution and put forth the specter of business schools taking DNA cheek swabs along with application packets.

Here's a discussion of a paper, «Regulating Against Bubbles: How Mortgage Regulation Can Keep Main Street and Wall Street Safe - From Themselves,» by Ryan Bubb and Prasad Krishnamurthy (disclosure: my law school classmates), that sort of takes the idea of a housing bubble seriously as a bubble.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

As the community mourns, lawmakers in Florida are responding with mixed ideas on what to do to address the recurring issue of gun violence in the state and the national trend of terrorists continually targeting schools.

Mixing public schools and religion is just a bad idea, as it leads to all sorts of complications.

if you read between lines, article sounds like a desperate cry of NRA, first sent some stupid with crazy idea of beefing up schools with guns, and now retaining some cheap bible preaching goon as spoke person

The problem lies partly in the fact that Melville felt his ideas as moods more than he thought them as ideas, and partly in the weakness of his schooling.

Now, as to the matter of teaching creationism in schools, I don't think it's a particularly good idea however, I also think that Darwinism needs to be taught as a theory and that children need to be taught about the strengths and weaknesses of the theory.

Although held in theory over a long period, the belief was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the writer, it is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.

As the school prepared for graduation this week, many students standing in the parks and archways that dot campus expressed support for inviting Sebelius and for the idea of welcoming guests who don't always agree with Catholic teaching.

In the same and in other schools uncertainty about the meaning of the ministry comes to appearance also in the feeling of conflict in a faculty between its loyalty to a traditional idea, such as that of the preacher, and its sense of obligation to denominational officials, alumni and churchmen in general who urge a more «practical» education.

The ideas of Socrates, as passed down, stand on their own as jumping off points for many schools of thought... open to proof or disproof of their efficacy.

(Contrary to a period in the historical school when scholars tried to see the God of Israel as God of Sinai [as a place], or as a god connected to Jerusalem» after which he became little by little more universal, until the birth of the idea of universalism.

A special assembly of bishops which met in Rome in November 1998 drew attention to the fact that «teachers in Catholic schools often have lives and ideas that are publicly in conflict with Church teaching» and they recognised this as a «countersign».

One group was a Rightist School of philosophers and theologians with some openness to Christian ideas, e.g. Karl Friedrich Goschel, Hermann Friedrich Wilhelm Hinrichs, and (much later) an argument can be made to include Rudolf Karl Bultmann as well.

Nonetheless, ordinary Catholics within a state of grace are heirs to the Kingdom of God, and the graced imagination's new ideas and solutions to difficult problems, are evident in the daily course of events that occur in school, work, families or, as Pope Francis hopes, creative solutions to the environmental crises.

But then Michael Kinsley concludes that, when other great shifts in ideas and politics occur, «most of us will flip as elegantly as those students at the Moscow Higher Party School, and hope no one notices.»

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

Indeed, it has been supposed by some that the teraphim, household gods, (Genesis 35:4; 31:19; 30 - 35; I Samuel 15:23; 19:13, 16; II Kings 23:24) were originally images of ancestors; that they were honored as such and were part of the apparatus of popular religion; (Hosea 3:4) that mortuary customs which the prophetic school later condemned grew up around them; (Cf. Deuteronomy 26:13 - 14) that the right of performing the necessary ceremonies for one's ancestors devolved upon a son and that this fact underlay both the sense of tragedy in being sonless and the practices of levirate marriage and of adoption to avoid such disaster; (Cf. Genesis 15:2 - 3; 30:3 - 8; Deuteronomy 25:5 - 10) and that this set of ideas and customs was an integral part of the whole clan organization of early Israel.

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

As for the schools, i thing it is a good idea to remind the italian kids that their people killed the jewish hippie dude then build themselve a conscience by decreting that Rome was not the holy place of christianity, which is IMHO, quite hilarious.

Coming down to our own century, pantheistic ideas are reflected in the work of Edward Caird, R. J. Campbell, and other members of the British - American school of philosophy known as «absolute idealism.»

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

Though no clear - cut idea of the theological school or of theology as a whole is as yet in prospect, a sense of renewal and promise, a feeling of excitement about the theological task is to be felt in the academic climate and it is accompanied by invigoration of intellectual inquiry and of religious devotion.

I shall argue that any theological «idea» of a theological school must take the «non - theological» factors shaping a school as seriously as it takes the «truly» theological issues.

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Extras: There's a section of fun videos such as taste tests, back to school meal ideas (perfect if you have kids) and there's even a discussion section where Candice and James talk about a range of topics.

This was actually a perfect idea, because as I'd sort of failed in making my sandwich post helpful in the back - to - school department, this was an area that would most certainly be suitable for that topic.

Well, as grad school students, we only go out to eat about once a month (if that), and I just can't bear the idea of wrestling and wrangling two tiny people while I'm at a restaurant trying to enjoy a meal I paid for someone else to make.

The government is also getting behind the idea: «Encourage all children to have a meat - free day each week, using alternatives such as pulses, soya mince, tofu and Quorn», is one of their «Top Tips» in the recently launched School Food Standards: A practical guide for schools their cooks and caterers, applicable in English schools from January.

I also teach culinary school part - time so I get to try out lots of new menu ideas and get inspiration from what the students are preparing as well.

I have to be honest with you... the process and idea of going back to school to pursue something I am completely passionate about is exhilarating as well as equally terrifying.

Horton, who had recruited Pumphrey as a 150 - pound prospect out of Canyon Springs High in Las Vegas, was thrilled by the idea that some of the bigger schools had been scared off of Washington.

As he prepared for his senior year of high school the idea of going to college was remote.

There are plenty of more ideas that Mark and I are excited to develop as the school year develops.

The NCAA when hamstrung by red tape has its share of issues, but given the decision - making in the past, the idea of the NCAA and schools riding a rocket docket toward substantive change seems fraught with peril as well.