Sentences with phrase «known as a reformer»

Before her tenure began, DeVos was known as a reformer in the K - 12 space, but her views on higher education were not well known.

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And any student of Luther will know that this was central to the Reformer's theology as well.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

This conception of just war was passed to the early modern age and known and used by such theorists as the Neoscholastics Vitoria, Soto, Molina, and Suarez, by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, the Puritan theologian William Ames, the theologically trained jurist Hugo Grotius, and others at the dawn of the modern era.

Beginning with the experience of Paul, the Christian view of this world which came to theological expression in the Reformers and which has now been revived with great power in the contemporary Protestant theology, has always shown a certain distrust of identifying human efforts toward the good with the divine work of redemption on the ground that the good as man knows it and seeks it is really of a different order from the good revealed in Christ.

That is why, perhaps, it is impossible for Garrow to imagine a principled opposition to the reformers whose lives he chronicles, who proceed as if an abortion were no more morally problematic than an appendectomy.

Some of the richest exegetical insights, however, come from lesser known figures, «reformers in the wings,» as David Steinmetz called them.

Yet the Reformers combined this radical freedom with the insistence that the new life is lived in the community of the church with its tradition, its scriptural authority and the celebration of the sacraments, for now the church is known as the community which God creates by his grace.

Still, ecumenical progress lends new resonance to the counsel of the English Reformer William Tyndale on this particular matter: «As pertaining to our lady's body, where it is, or where the body of Elias, of John the evangelist, and many other be, pertaineth not to us to know.

Sen. Tom Duane, a Manhattan Democrat who was the first openly gay and (as far as I know) only HIV - positive member of the Senate, has thrown his support to his colleague, Sen. Eric Schneiderman, calling him «a true reformer and a tireless advocate for all New Yorkers.»

«He is a bona - fide reformer, and I know as Attorney General he'll put equal and fair justice above all.

Simon is known as a progressive and a reformer.

Albanese is known as an independent - minded reformer who doesn't easily fit an ideological label, while Gangi flanks de Blasio's left on almost every issue.

The reformers number close to 20 in the 150 - member body; an exact count isn't known and Mr. Kavanagh, as well as Mr. Heastie, declined to comment.

As chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the aiAs chair of the Education Committee, (he's perhaps best known as his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the aias his role as an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the aias an education reformer, and lead paintiff in the CFE case), Jackson fought to get PCBs out of classrooms and to phase out dirty boilers that polluted the air.

Unquestionably, the dauntless legend who is also known as «Tuff Gong,» would pass for an activist; a freedom fighter, a reformer, a poet and above all else, a prophet.

The legislative leaders, however, responded that Cuomo was making demands he knew were unacceptable in a politically motivated effort to appear as a reformer because he's under federal investigation for dismantling his anti-corruption Moreland Commission panel.

Reformers thus embraced the junior high school movement, knowing that the purpose of these institutions was to encourage students to make vocational choices as early as age 12 or 13.

It means reformers need to sweat things like perverse incentives and whether a policy is likely to actually, you know, work as intended, even when they'd rather focus on moral exhortation or larger causes.

Over the past three decades, mayors such as Richard Riordan and Antonio Villaraigosa have fought to place reform - minded players on the district's school board, while grassroots reformers such as Green Dot Public Schools founder Steve Barr and the group that is now known as Parent Revolution have successfully forced L.A. Unified to start an effort to spin off over 200 of its traditional public schools into charter school operators and grassroots groups.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Based on all the complaints from Washington State politicians and conservative Beltway school reformers such as Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute reported by Motoko Rich last Sunday in New York Times, you would think that the Obama Administration's leveled a great injustice by not renewing the waiver given to it two years ago to ignore the No Child Left Behind Act.

ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools.

And teachers are firing back saying, you know, these corporate reformers, as they call them, are undermining public education by pushing charter schools vouchers and trying to roll back teacher tenure.

The fact that many conservative reformers and movement conservatives no longer live in big cities and almost never live in suburbs with significant minority populations such as Prince George's County, Md., also means that they rarely have deep conversations with people who live in them or address their concerns in meaningful ways.

So as I understand it, the reformers claim to have a magic formula — in the shape of the Common Core Curriculum — and while they know what the formula contains, they don't know how it's going to work or what exactly it's supposed to do.

Seven years after Paul Vallas and the «education reformers» successfully destroyed the public education system in New Orleans and replaced it with charter schools, the average score for the standardized test known as ACT stands at 16.8, placing it among the very lowest cities in the nation.

Even states like New York and California are looking for ways to show they are «reformers» and not the status quoers they have long been known as.

FOR YEARS, THE D.C. public schools have been known as factious battlegrounds for education reformers of all stripes; new plans and policies would be implemented every few years, only to have new leaders and competing agendas ushered in shortly afterward.

Why «reformers» don't look at these other models as exemplars, I don't know.

Meanwhile, a coalition of political figures, business leaders and education reformers sharply criticized the lawsuit, claiming that despite its seemingly narrow parameters it could threaten the entire legislation, also known as Senate Bill 191.

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.»

As the founder, along with leading public education advocate Diane Ravitch, of what is called the Education Bloggers Network, I've had the tremendous honor of working with, getting to know and regularly reading the writing of more than 230 education bloggers who are collectively and individually fighting for public education and against the destructive tactics of the so - called «education reformers.»

We certainly know that reality here, as Governor Malloy's education reform associates like Mayor Bill Finch, «Education Reformer Extraordinaire» Paul Vallas, and corporate business organizations like Excel Bridgeport and the Council for Education Reform, are spending over $ 100,000 to eliminate Bridgeport's democratically elected board of education and replace it with one appointed by the Mayor.

Public school teachers today are considered by the corporate education reformers as merely «clerks» whose expertise, craft and artistry are no longer valued.

As the Courant knows, Dan Malloy and the «education reformers» have put an inordinate weight on the role of standardized testing (i.e. his comment that he supports teaching to the test so the test scores go up).

The new systems, as civil rights - based reformers and others have warned, make it harder for everyone in education to know how well children are being taught.

He says Ritz has characterized him as an angry education reformer, but he knows he has the support of teachers across the state.

But of course, as we know from our experience here in Connecticut, education reformers like Governor Malloy, Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Special Master Steven Adamowski and their supporters don't let something like the truth get in the way of their public policy agenda.

Corporate reformers advocate flexibility, freedom from burdensome school boards — but what this really means is the freedom to fire faculty and staff, to strip teachers of job protections, deprive them of professionalism and the autonomy to teach as they best know how — and to disable their unions, for charters allow no unions.

Meanwhile Malkin seems to ignore the reality that the nation's criminal justice systems are in as sore a need of reform as public education — and that as school reformers, Teach For America alumni and staffers can no more ignore the consequences of those woes on children outside of schools than the crises within them.

As Dropout Nation made clear earlier this year (and over the past year), the No Child waiver gambit is a stain on Obama's and Duncan's otherwise admirable legacy as school reformerAs Dropout Nation made clear earlier this year (and over the past year), the No Child waiver gambit is a stain on Obama's and Duncan's otherwise admirable legacy as school reformeras school reformers.

After a number of exchanges, the corporate reformer beats a hasty retreat, usually accompanied by the lobbing of a final «closing argument», such as, «I don't know why you keep making policy debates personal».

On previous occasions, opponents have been able to portray patent reform as a pet project of Silicon Valley, and suggest reformers were no more than slick tech villains looking to ride roughshod over inventors.