Sentences with phrase «in education debates»

Her self - published blog has now attracted over 24 million «hits,» and has become a highly - respected and influential voice in the education debates.

In the education debates that have been waged over the past decade, education experts often cited an alarming statistic: 50 percent of new teachers leave after the first five years.

As the head of Ofsted, Sir Michael was known as an outspoken figure in education debates, often clashing with ministers.

Jason Crye of Hispanics for School Choice argued that the way race gets framed in education debates can feel out of step with the real world.

But I think I'm really the moderate in education debates.

Perhaps no one feels a need to say anything because the phrase is becoming omnipresent wallpaper in the education debates, just one more familiar partisan epithet.

It's Hollywood, of course, so he ultimately comes to believe that the union's interests stand in the way of school reform, but the discussion along the way adds depth that is often missing in education debates.

But as is usual in education debates, strange bedfellows abound.

At the end of his book, Tough says that we are at the point in the education debate that we must begin by agreeing that we can all do better by our students.

Teacher benefits, once a sleepy question primarily of interest to actuaries, have become a flash point in the education debate.

Had nearly 14 years of charter school experience in Minnesota moved them from lightning rod to mainstream in the education debate?

He concludes «The bottom line is that there's a whole lot of talking past one another in the education debate, though maybe less than in the political debate writ large.»

They have lost all moral high ground in the education debate and their credibility is evaporating.

Whichever is correct one wonders if he has the skills needed to be influential in the Education Debate.

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It includes examples of successful acts of resistance and identifies resources for challenging reformers» taken for granted primacy in the education debate.

Brill began to appear on panels with key figures in the education debate, including American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten and Harlem Children's Zone President and CEO Geoffrey Canada.

In the process, they revealed — and began to reshape — divisions in the education debate, in the Democratic Party and within the labor movement itself.

Critics see them as obstacles to change; even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

The shift in the education debate from «how much» to «how best» is a welcome change, but for students to feel the full benefit the federal government must resist intervening.

Some see them as obstacles to change, and even union sympathizers agree that their voice in the education debate has been muted.

Not exact matches

And, as the mother of daughters, I now see the merit in carving out all - female spaces for education, debate, and building relationships.

On tuition fees, shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said: «If they want a debate on fees they could start by allowing one in the Commons on their latest fee hike, along with a vote.

That thought, on display during Wednesday's presidential debates, is also at the heart of a battle raging between Democrats and Republicans, whose views about governement involvment in everything from health care and education to business are diametrically opposed.

He has repeatedly name checked countries like Denmark and Sweden in interviews and debates, arguing that we should copy policies like mandatory paid leave for new parents and free healthcare and college education to improve the economic lives of ordinary Americans.

April 6: Facebook says it will require admins of popular pages and advertisers buying political or «issue» ads on «debated topics of national legislative importance» like education or abortion to verify their identity and location — in an effort to fight disinformation on its platform.

After more than seven hours of emotional debate that hit the sensitive political subjects of gun control, education and race, the House voted 67 - 50 in favor of the bill, sending it to Gov. Rick Scott.

In June 2017, the Americas Society awarded Flatt a Gold Medal at its 37th annual fundraising event — an organization dedicated to education, debate and dialogue on the Americas.

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I pray to whichever holy name (God, Allah, Jehovah, Krishna, Jesus, etc.) suits the ONE Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent being that ignorance is wiped away from our species and we become a closer, more loving, peaceful creature and that we realize how much time we waste and how much further we push our fellow neighbor and brother under God, regardless of creed, away debating over who's God is better and discover the error of our ways before we destroy each other... before it's too late, because The End is Nigh!!!!! LOL!!!!! Really though, isn't the world full of enough tragedy, and aren't their so many more important things that need our energy and attention like the innocent children in Pakistan dying from diseases from the flood or the homeless children in our own country, or the lack of education, which is exactly what leads to this kind of debate?

In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

Most of the contentiousness in this debate is largely born of no education or miseducation as to what the various scientific positions are.

In addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realIn addition, if seminary education were informed more by theologia as he conceives it, ministers would be better equipped not only to run their churches but to relate them to the major issues being debated in the public realin the public realm.

Thus Wood's proposal adds an important new issue to the agenda: In what conceptuality do we most fruitfully formulate the basic issues confronting theological education today, propose resolutions of those issues, and debate our disagreements?

Do not say there is not a right and wrong in this debate; there's a right, and an ignorance of the right, whether that ignorance is because of lack of education in biology / chemistry / theoretical physics or a choice to ignore facts so that a person can comfortably keep their faith intact or both.

The question as to whether there is a qualitative difference in the education being offered in church - sponsored colleges as over against state - supported institutions is a matter that has to be debated in the zero - based mission planning that Bishop Adams suggests.

Both sides in this debate argue away from the assumption that a rather rich education, and a pretty fair amount of experience in the world, would be required of anyone who might plausibly be designated author of the Shakespeare corpus.

In past flush periods for higher education spending, new programs and courses were often added without much consideration or debate.

Kimball, whose research seems to have taken him into every debate on liberal education through more than two millennia, draws his vast findings together in two contrasting models.

Some in this debate have pointed to a difference between catechesis and religious education.

That, if they would only listen to themselves more carefully, is what some advocates of academic freedom are asserting in current debates about Christian higher education.

In an eerie foreshadowing of today's debates over character education, journalists warned that the family could not do it alone: the schools had to help.

Conservatives and liberals alike have debated the use of faith - development theory in Christian education.1

Atheism and IQ A faith — science debate has also emerged in the pages of the Times Higher Education.

Clearly, then, it is important for anyone concerned about the health of theological education, or, more broadly, for anyone concerned about the health of theology, to be aware, not simply of one or another of the voices in the debate, but of the overall structure and movement of the debate as a whole.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

Rather, the central question in the recent debate has been this: «What is the nature and purpose of specifically theological education?

The debate has not focused on pedagogical questions, on variations of the question, «What is the most effective way to teach in theological education?»

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

In addition to our debates about general education, The Great Civilized Conversation has something important to say about the Chinese tradition and the modern world.