Ravitch's role
in conservative education reform was not as a generator of ideas; others developed the framework of standards and market competition.
Bush is a major figure
in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.
Lord Baker remembers his part
in Conservative education changes in the 80s and the National Curriculum reform.
Not exact matches
At the
Conservative Political Action Conference
in March, he continued to define his agenda by focusing on fixing the immigration system and
education.
'' [Bush's] big areas of focus have always been on
education and refocusing people on opportunities, no matter what income bracket they are born into,» says Stan Veuger, resident economist for the
conservative American Enterprise Institute
in Washington, D.C.
The
conservative Public Notice Research and
Education Fund took
in $ 1,821,000
in grants
in 2011, $ 1,244,000 of which — almost 70 percent — came from Donors Trust.
Then I factored
in private
education costs for two kids to be
conservative given I may not have two kids and public schools are often good enough.
The fields of academia and
education are one of the most
conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained
in use to the detriment of new technology.
The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive
Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex
education curriculum by candidates
in this race.
In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive
Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.
Fortunately for the GOP, Christian
conservatives do not believe
in education and just are not intelligent enough to realize that the GOP is only using them to gain power so that they can implement policies that benefit the Top 5 % at the exclusion of the rest of America, Christian
conservatives included.
«A study
in the United States, published
in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were
in the middle, while
conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while
in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of
education and other factors).
And, of course, it is
conservatives who are pressing for the basic justice of parental choice
in education, a choice taken for granted by the affluent.
The new
education secretary named
in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle is a Christian and a trustee of the
Conservative Christian Fellowship.
Movement toward such a new contract has begun already
in several states, most notably California, where the liberal emphasis on
education and training has been combined with the
conservative emphasis on demanding something
in exchange for a welfare check.
Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures
in the black
conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and
Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.
Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the
conservative resistance they met
in their efforts to open higher
education to intellectually capable students.
In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club
In fact, social
conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club
in the USA, led by Christian
conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of
Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not
in MY country club
in MY country club!)
Conservatives and liberals alike have debated the use of faith - development theory
in Christian
education.1
In my years as a theology professor, as a rare conservative in higher education, I became accustomed to calls for dialogue on this or that issu
In my years as a theology professor, as a rare
conservative in higher education, I became accustomed to calls for dialogue on this or that issu
in higher
education, I became accustomed to calls for dialogue on this or that issue.
But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «
conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be
in the matter of
education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?
A growing coalition of
conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex
education, school - based health centers, guidance programs
in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.
Some
conservative Christians have vigorously, even viciously, denounded fellow evangelical Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for suggesting advertisements and
education about condoms
in the battle against AIDS.
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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 stat
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.
While I'm very sympathetic to Dreher's hope (I teach at a school that advertises itself as Christian), I see something problematic
in a kind of greenhouse theory of
conservative education in which students are reared and taught within an engineered, not -
in - the - world atmosphere.
His «vision of a traditional service infused with English, decorum, and modern
education,» writes Michael R. Cohen
in his recent book, The Birth of
Conservative Judaism, was perfectly compatible with what later became known as «Modern Orthodoxy.»
This community passed a referendum
in 2002 and raised the tax rate
in the
education fund to attract and retain teachers and that
conservative budgeting has been the promise back to the community.»
The tendency has been to bog down
in fights between the Right and the Left, where
conservatives were worried that character
education programs were all about teaching mushy diversity and general sort of tolerance, and liberals were worried that character
education was about teaching religion and more
conservative values.
David Cameron was forced to square up to the grassroots
in June after his former
education spokesman David Willetts said the
Conservative party would not support the building of any new grammar schools.
The spat was about the
Conservative Party's position on
Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying in e
Education Maintenance Allowances (EMAs), a weekly cash payment for 16 to 18 - year - olds from low income families to help with the costs of staying
in educationeducation.
Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but
in reality falling investment
in public services represents a political choice by the current
Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and
education provision.
And despite growing support - from India to Sierra Leone - for publicly funded health and
education systems modelled on our own, the
Conservatives are pushing for private sector provision
in DfID's new private sector strategy.
«We see Andrew Cuomo nowhere
in our neighborhoods, and he's shifting to the right, which is why he chose (Rochester Mayor) Robert Duffy as his lieutenant governor, who is a former Republican, who's a right - wing and
conservative in his approach to
education and policing our people.
A teacher rebellion
in red states from West Virginia to Arizona has put Republicans on the defensive, forcing them to walk a fine line
in the months before midterm elections between placating constituents who are angry over
education cuts and
conservative supporters who want a smaller government and low taxes.
Conservative columnist Kyle O'Connor takes on a recent measure by the New York State
Education Department's Board of Regents that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain professional licenses, including certification to teach
in public schools.
Adonis was also popular with some Opposition politicians,
in particular the then -
Conservative Education Spokesman Michael Gove, who once declared, «We are on the same page as Andrew Adonis.»
Within months of assuming office, the
Conservatives had taken full control of the agenda, rolling out ambitious reform programmes
in health,
education and welfare.
The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse
in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the
Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one
in five voters believe that the Lib Dems
in government have been responsible for the upturn
in the economy, changes
in the NHS, changes
in levels of crime, changes
in levels of immigration and changes
in the standards of
education.
The
education secretary put a brave face on the announcement but it is one of the most significant U-turns
in the coalition's already lengthy history of them and suggests a new fault - line between the Liberal Democrats and the
Conservatives on
education policy.
The shadow
education secretary said that any decision on whether Lord Archer joined his local
Conservative association was up to the local board, saying it would be «crazy» for the party leader to intervene
in the proper process of membership.
Higher
education doesn't have its own section
in the
Conservative manifesto, but there are many parts of the Tory agenda with consequences for universities, students and graduates.
One of his most notable actions was to establish a social action programme
in the
Conservative Party called Project Umubano which delivers
education, healthcare and business training
in Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
The whole idea of British values may have been conceived by the former
Conservative secretary of state for
education, Michael Gove, but feelings
in his party on the issue are running high.
Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye): Will the Secretary of State join me
in congratulating
Conservative - run East Sussex county council, which, after a disappointing grant from the Department for
Education, has stepped in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better education in
Education, has stepped
in with # 12 million of capital that it had not planned to give to ensure that the St Leonards academy is rebuilt to provide better
education in
education in Hastings?
Democrat Christine Pellegrino ran against
Conservative Tom Gargiulo, 59, a retired BOCES special
education teacher from Babylon, for the 9th District Assembly seat vacated by Joseph Saladino, who resigned
in January to be appointed supervisor of the Town of Oyster Bay.
Despite mea culpas and the public backing of his boss,
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Kevin Jennings, a so - called schools czar
in the Obama administration, continues to be the target of a
conservative campaign against his long - ago actions as a schoolteachers.
Commenting on the proposals for
education in the
Conservative Party manifesto, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said:
Earlier this week, the
Conservatives warned of an «
education apartheid» opening up
in English schools, as more and more independent schools offered exams like the IB that were not widely available
in the state sector.
«We share the concerns of the public about poverty, jobs and the need to do better
in education, but we're bringing
Conservative principles to solve those problems.»
As a former party chairman, Pickles will have been relieved that Cameron focused his speech so closely on
Conservative values - especially
in the areas of
education and welfare.