Sentences with phrase «more education wars»

It has brought more education wars: competition in opposition to cooperation, choice against commonality, rigor versus flexibility.

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spent on the worship od imaginary dieties... was spent on a cure for cancer, heart disease and the «education of the young... and a cure for war... but no your gods are more important than the human race.

Whether he likes it or not, Bernanke just pledged what will likely amount to a trillion dollars of taxpayer money to Obama's reelection, thereby impacting not only the economy, but potentially immigration policy, the next Supreme Court nominee, education, and even more urgent determinations, like questions of war and peace.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Religious affiliation appears to be a litmus test for people who don't want (or are unable) to think critically about more important issues like the economy, war, and support for public programs (education, social security, etc.).

Nonetheless, they were substantial enough for Merrimon Cuninggim to conclude in a study conducted on the eve of World War II that «religion is moving once more into a central place in higher education.»

The Second World War changed all this; the imminent collapse of civilization tended to break down social barriers, and sex education became more about avoiding syphilis, gonorrhoea and the like.

Voters say Slaughter will do a better job in Washington representing them on health care, education and the war in Afghanistan, and they are more closely divided on whether she or Brooks would serve them better when it comes to jobs, taxes and the federal budget deficit.

«I feel the new GI Bill will offer more enhanced opportunities in the 21st century for many to pursue college education,» Latigo says, a conclusion he bases «on the experience of the original GI Bill after World War II that expanded opportunities for many, particularly in the technical disciplines.»

The paradox of modern schooling after World War II, he found, was that just as our complex industrial society made formal education more important, adolescent culture was shifting teens» attention away from education, prompting adolescents to squeeze out «maximum rewards for minimal effort.»

In a world that needs to be saved from history's» effects like war, global warming, poverty, religion's ideology, hyper - consumption, etc.... Today's education (both classroom and beyond the classroom) has to be able to shape concerned individuals who can learn from human history and be more innovative than the box allows them, to be.

Civil War Lesson Plans and Activities This week, Education World presents more than a dozen lessons for teaching about the Civil War.

We take heart in knowing that identical arguments were made when large - scale clinical trials were introduced in medicine after World War II — a time when medicine was seen as more an art than a science, much as education is today.

Education World presents more than a dozen lessons for teaching about the Civil War.

«The culture wars over control of and focus for the National Curriculum may also be left to experts in education given the much more progressive views of the new Prime Minister and the Minister of Eeducation given the much more progressive views of the new Prime Minister and the Minister of EducationEducation.

While these findings provided some support for what has been termed «the war on teachers» (Giroux, 2013; Goldstein, 2015), in which the «intelligence, judgment, and experience that teachers might offer in [current education] debates» are ignored (Giroux, 2013, p. 3), a more holistic look at my findings provides some support for Eric Hanushek's (2011) proposition that there «is not a war on teachers en masse.»

He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory - model education system were doing so under faulty assumptions about how students learn.

«I don't know if we're so much caught up in the parent trigger battle going off or more caught up in an even larger battle between the education establishment and education reformers, and this is just another battleground in that war,» said Oklahoma State Sen. David Holt, R - Oklahoma City, whose parent trigger bill cleared the State Senate in March but never made it to a vote in the House.

The philosophy of education institutions seemed more centered on constructing buildings that could withstand the use and abuse for many years to come, which was probably a reaction to the low - cost schools built following World War II.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The Center for Public Education provides more information on comparing state and NAEP assessments in two of its guides, Score wars and The proficiency debate.

More than 12 percent of Revere's students are immigrants, many of whom are refugees from war - torn or unstable countries who come to school with limited — or no — English and with interruptions in their education.

Helping more people attain basic literacy and numeracy would count as an improvement in anybody's book and there is a fair degree of agreement on what those terms mean (although the so - called «literacy wars» and «math wars» include disagreements about the ends as well as the best means for basic education).

Like the military industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about more than 55 years ago, the billionaires, the charter school industry and their corporate education reform allies want us to believe that providing children with the skills and knowledge to succeed and prosper in the 21st Century is nothing more than an opportunity to «wage war» and make money, all at the same time.

Will this spark a real conversation about school equity and innovation or will this bring more polarization and turf wars in public education?

Not sure if I would buy that either the left or right has a war on science, more the Oligarchy uses science and, in fact, the entire institution of education to further its ends.

In order to prepare rising lawyers for their probable transnational role, law schools must bring a more global dimension into legal education.14 Some observers see this step as comparable in its portent for legal education to the movement away from state - based legal instruction and toward a national perspective that spread through American legal education following World War II.15 Whatever the strength of that comparison, the advocates of globalization envision a future in which the practice of law is not limited by national borders or confined to a single national legal system.

Education University of Akron Summer 2007 — Spring 2010 Bachelors of Science in Emergency Management University of Akron Spring 2006 — Fall 2008 Associates of Applied Science in Criminal Justice Technology Revere High School Fall 1997 — Spring 2001 High School Diploma Skills and Achievements n Certifications in Fema's Independent study programs o IS — 100, IS — 139, IS — 235, IS — 700 n Grant Writing n Awarded Soldier of the Year during my tour in Iraq, only four soldiers were awarded this in the State of Ohio n Combat Action Badge, Humanitarian Service Ribbon, National Defense Service Ribbon, Army Service Ribbon, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, plus many more medals and ribbons n Excellent communication skills n Hard working, detail oriented n Adapt well to problem solving n Good at multi-tasking