Sentences with phrase «made by the reformers»

It is equally indispensable to reflect on the fundamental judgments made by the Reformers and the critical importance they have had in the history of exegesis.

This argument has in fact been made by reformers, and is generally done by citing SAT or ACT or GPAs of the people entering that profession as «evidence» that they are deficient.

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Indeed, the fundamental point here is that the strong appeal of the proposals being made by the new reformers is due to the fact that they cohere so well with the way in which we now understand political life and with the way in which we represent ourselves as moral agents.

In short, a strong case can be made for saying that, as both the common good of society and the particular good of citizens is now threatened by political voluntarism, so also both the common and particular good of lovers (and families) is threatened by the voluntaristic and limited nature of the promises and undertakings that typically characterize the new reformers» account of sexual relations.

The English Reformers, in the Prayer Hook which was prepared by Thomas Cramner in 1549, had exactly the same intention — as is shown by their providing that only at the eucharistic celebration was there to be the collection of alms and the making of parochial announcements.

And the fact liberal health reformers, like conservative ones, are motivated by the desire to make coverage more available does not absolve them of the duty to do so responsibly.

In the Genesis narratives, for example, Abraham is depicted neither as a religious philosopher nor as a reformer but as someone whom God «makes his own» and ordains to be the progenitor of a family - nation that would serve as a pilot - people for humanity by keeping God's way — the avoidance of violence and the practice of justice under law (Genesis 18:19).

When the Reformers made sola fide the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae, they meant by faith in Jesus Christ, fides Jesu (objective genitive).

To be sure, for the Reformers this was a wider concept than what we have come to mean by work — which is, roughly, a job for the doing of which one is paid, a way to make a living.

ism had to be combated ever and again by the great reformers who sought to make the monk a servant of mankind rather than a seeker after his own holiness.

May we make the interpretive virtues of the reformers — virtues shared by the great Christian exegetes down the ages — our own.

The danger is that overall, this could make the EP more integrationist by locking out not only the malcontents but also «critical reformers» — parties that have a constructive agenda for fundamental (as opposed to superficial) reform of the EU.

As for the claim that is widely made by good government groups and left leaning reformers that establishing a public campaign finance system would go a long way toward getting big money out of the political system and reducing corruption, New Yorkers aren't really on board.

She said it's used by the» «no excuses» reformers» who are making teachers the scapegoats for larger societal causes of student failure.

The US attorney didn't make any specific recommendations about how to purge the state of dirty pols, but he did make clear that the growing list of cases against elected officials at the state and local levels brought by his office indicate that the problem is far from solved — despite claims to the contrary by any number of self - appointed «reformers.»

The administration's declarations directly contradict the statements made by the Moreland Commission's co-chairs, a bipartisan pair of respected district attorneys who maintained that the mandate was real, and not the latest in a series of let - downs Cuomo had sold to reformers.

By the early 1830s, he says, math reformers were making one of their first stands, arguing that educators needed to move away from rote learning, so they could better understand the meaning of math.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

For «reformers» it's an article of faith that closing the achievement gap is job number - one — and that highly - effective schools can make a big dent in the gap — maybe even close it entirely — all by themselves.

What makes these volumes particularly valuable for professional reformers is that they are written by people who hadn't previously thought much about high school except as a piece of their pasts.

Reformers are school district leaders who aim to make centralized, government - run educational systems work more effectively by imposing new rules and regulations concerning what school administrators and teachers can and can not do.

Its sole aim was to make sure that every school would by 2014 bring every student up to proficiency, and a level - based system is needed to direct reformers» attention to those schools and districts with the farthest distance to go.

This of course plays right into the hands of reformers who constantly and correctly make the point that throughout much of the country we have a rigid government - run monopoly by zip - code education system.

It isn't as if Duncan can't make this happen; in September, Virginia ended up revising its proficiency targets after the Obama administration was sufficiently embarrassed by civil rights activists and reformers over its earlier approval.

And it is important to remind some Beltway reformers that focusing on poor and minority children will not only help all kids, but can even win suppoet from middle class blacks and Latinos, who will make up the majority of all Americans by mid-century.

I am particularly offended by «reformers» who tell us that we are «making excuses» when we try to deal with the increasing poverty our market economy helped create.

As they prepare to compete along with a Republican candidate in the June primary, however, Tuck and Torlakson's backgrounds and perspectives on a handful of hot - button issues are making the nonpartisan race a referendum on whether change is coming quickly enough in a state where the traditional might of labor unions is being challenged by increasingly restive education reformers.

Turning our nation's schools into factories for Common Core test prep is beneficial to those making money on creating the tests and to those who can call themselves bold reformers by demanding «rigor» and «higher standards,» but to the real students in our classrooms these are hollow and empty words.

By eviscerating No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration also takes away real data on school performance, making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and complicating the activities of researchers (including those doing state - by - state comparisonsBy eviscerating No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration also takes away real data on school performance, making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and complicating the activities of researchers (including those doing state - by - state comparisonsby - state comparisons).

These issues, along with the fact that the Obama administration seems not to be paying attention to what is happening inside the states to which waivers have been granted, and has generally ignored concerns raised by its own peer review panels about waiver proposals, makes it hard for centrist Democrat reformers to make the case that the School Reformer - in - Chief is doing a credible job advancing reform.

In fact, it allows for Romney and conservative and Republican reformers acting as surrogates for his campaign to make a strong case that neither Obama nor Duncan are fit to take on the tough task of advancing systemic reform from the federal level; given that swing states such as Virginia have been granted waivers despite their poor records on advancing reform, they can even argue that the waivers are politically - motivated by the president's re-election concerns (even though there is no evidence of this).

This setting of low expectations by the state, which has been criticized by reformers in the state such as former Commissioner for Higher Education Stan Jones (now the head of College Complete America), makes a mockery of the otherwise strong efforts by the state to transform education for children.

«This poll makes it clear that the American people soundly reject the agenda being pushed by austerity hawks and market - based reformers to starve public schools of resources and fixate instead on testing, opt - outs and sanctions.

This is because the federal government ultimately amplifies education policy decisions made at the state level, especially by those reform - minded governors and legislators (along with reformers) who also seek help from the federal level to beat back opposition to their efforts by entrenched traditionalist interests.

They lauded the «progress» made in Bridgeport by the reformer Superintendent Paul Vallas, who left his previous districts, Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, in crisis.

There's also Indiana, where the two - year - long battle between reformers on the state's board of education and Supt. Glenda Ritz will likely come to a head with efforts in the state legislature to make the latter's job a gubernatorial appointment as well as Gov. Mike Pence's plan to clarify state law by allowing the body to appoint its own chair instead of having Ritz at its helm.

There is a group of corporations, led by a group of «education reformers,» and backed by a group of Republican and Democratic politicians, all of whom are engaged in an effort to destroy public education, and hand the nation's education system over to corporations and consultants, who can make a huge amount of money.

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has made a huge political blunder and by associating himself with in - state and out - of - state corporate education reformers, he has ensured that he will be seen as one of Connecticut's leading anti-public education, anti-union and anti-teacher politicians.

The logically absurd claims being made by the superintendents, and other reformers, got me wondering about how they could consistently get away with comparing apples and tomatoes without ever admitting that the comparison is fundamentally bogus.

And if the corporate reformers have their way, their schemes to evaluate teachers and the schools of education they came from on the basis of yet another new generation of standardized tests, it will make the testing plague unleashed by NCLB pale by comparison.

Billionaire wise hobbit Warren Buffet once told school reformer Michelle Rhee that the easiest way to fix schools was to «make private schools illegal and assign every child to a public school by random lottery.»

A better reason for fright is the rapid progress made by the charter school reformers.

«No excuses» became a mantra of corporate reformers, an excuse for shutting down public schools and moving in with charters, an excuse to ignore poverty and blame teachers for conditions that make teaching impossible — conditions assured by inequities that billionaire reformers have themselves brought about.

Despite the reluctance of school administrators to speak up and push back against this ludicrous accountability exercise that has been promoted by politicians and corporate education reformers who have many self - interested reasons for maintaining this misguided testing endeavor, it is well - known that the «standardized» testing mandate only serves to continue the false narrative of failing American public education in order to drive the profit - making agenda of those who seek to privatize education and undermine the public trust.

By eviscerating No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, the administration also takes away real data on school performance, making it more difficult for families from being the lead decision - makers reformers need in order for overhauls to gain traction, and making it more difficult for researchers to do their work.

Efforts by reformers along with reform - minded (and, in many cases, budget - conscious) governors to make it harder to attain tenure or abolish near - lifetime employment altogether, along with moves to subject teachers to performance - based evaluations, means that they would lose the benefits for which they have long worked.

(It also makes it difficult for researchers and reformers to access the comparable state - by - state data they need for their own respective work.).

Unions were targeted by republicans whose primary focus was reducing state spending and by reformers who wanted to make teachers more accountable.

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».

The law has long been a target of criminal justice reformers, who have argued that the severe, mandatory minimum penalties contemplated by Tennessee's School Zone law fail to make appropriate distinctions between people who sell drugs to children and people who don't...