Sentences with phrase «laboratory of democracy»

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

Once considered laboratories of democracy, too many states have become petri dishes of corruption; rather than increase economic opportunity, they serve the most opportunistic.

John Dewey, in particular, championed many progressive pedagogical innovations because he thought they turned classrooms into laboratories of democracy.

To prepare young people for online civic participation, A publicly supported virtual laboratory of democracy should be created that enables young people to become socialized to an online civic society and to learn how to act — in a civic manner — upon issues of importance to them and the larger society.

While not necessarily the best policy, accommodating experiments in the «laboratories of democracy» represents smart politics: it fits with Republican notions of states» rights and federalist self - determination, but is also consistent with the overwhelming support cannabis legalisation enjoys among the Democratic base.

There were countless discussions about getting involved in State Legislatures and winning back local chambers so we can develop our ideas in the laboratories of democracy that can be state government.

We have since turned those words into today's common political phrase that the 50 U.S. states are «laboratories of democracy.»

If the states are our laboratories of democracy, we should get some great new data from their education policy experimentation on April 10.

One of the most notable «laboratories of democracy» was Texas, where governors on both sides of the aisle pursued a reform agenda, starting in the early 1980s, centered on higher academic standards, standardized testing, school accountability, competition, and choice.

This is why it is called the «laboratory of democracy.»

The original logic behind charter schools was that they would be laboratories of learning, much in the same way our states are laboratories of democracy.

Contrary to the longstanding argument by some that states are laboratories of democracy in which innovation is the norm, legislators and governors often duplicate efforts undertaken by counterparts elsewhere.

The Pacific Northwest is a laboratory of democracy reform trying to reduce the influence of Big Money, universalize voter registration, and modernize voting systems.

With an economy that rivals many other nations, California functions as a laboratory of democracy and has been a climate leader for decades.

States aren't just the laboratories of democracy, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said.

The economic impacts can not be attributable entirely to «laboratories of democracy» for the simple reason they often are adopted or evolve outside of democratic mechanisms:

Let the Member States be the «laboratories of democracy».