Sentences with phrase «kinds of social reform»

Whether it's attitudes about civil rights, eating meat, or other kinds of social reform, as a younger generation grows up and begins participating in public life, gradual yet seismic shifts in attitudes and policies can occur.

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The «salvation» pictured was also historically concrete and actual, involving a range of dimensions from personal salvation and transformation through all kinds of social agencies and reform from credit unions for the poor to day care centers for working mothers.
However, the claim that no social institutions should ever be put beyond the limits of Reform does not entail the idea that there are no such limits; it only implies that the limits on Reform are not of such a kind as to create insuperable protections for particular institutions.
That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.
It's those kind of wild ideas that Pondiscio says qualifies left - leaning school reform advocates as «social justice warriors.»
«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.
Just as inclusion of social science research on law practice can broaden and improve the intellectual apprenticeship in United States law schools, so, too, can social science research on legal education itself can help law schools with the process of reform.32 Research that looks across a variety of kinds of law schools is needed to inform changes in pedagogy that are sensitive to differences in missions, constituencies, and resources.
Kenney said: «The case for some kind of supply - side reform to ensure that social and economic need is met is actually pretty overwhelming,» he said.
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