Sentences with phrase «national conservative education»

Not exact matches

For example, perhaps a politically conservative, religious audience might appreciate the importance of good science education through the lens of its importance to the economy or national security.

Besides Sowell, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, other prominent figures in the black conservative movement are Glenn C. Loury, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Walter E. Williams, a professor of economics at George Mason University; I A. Parker, president of the Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, Inc.; Robert Woodson, president of the National Association of Neighborhood Enterprises; and Joseph Perkins, editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.

Commenting on the Secretary of State for Education's session at Conservative Party Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said: «Michael Gove does not have a monopoly of concern that all children and young people should have high aspiration and the very best teaching and support to achieve.

«Spencer Pitfield: Immigration and education on the Conservative Policy Forum's agenda Main Robert Buckland MP: The Justice and Security Bill strikes the correct balance between openness and the need to preserve our national security»

The Conservative national leader William Hague attacked the Labour council as he said they lowered the education budget while setting one of the highest metropolitan council taxes in the country.

Lord Baker remembers his part in Conservative education changes in the 80s and the National Curriculum reform.

The campaign, developed and funded by a conservative Washington group called the National Council for Better Education, satirizes the nea's new national television advertisements, said Linda Clark, a spokesman for thNational Council for Better Education, satirizes the nea's new national television advertisements, said Linda Clark, a spokesman for thnational television advertisements, said Linda Clark, a spokesman for the group.

Washington — Several conservative scholars and political activists who have criticized the activities of the Education Department may soon be assigned by that department to review proposals for federal grants, according to information obtained from the National Institute of Education (nie).

«I have never seen him call someone a name to make his point,» says Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, an organization that has about as much love for the conservative think tank AEI as the Red Sox do for the Yankees.

The National Education Association, long a target of conservative criticism for its stands on political and social issues, is under siege again — this time for its advice to teachers on handling the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

When turning to education reform, conservatives, by and large, are animated by their love of freedom, pluralism and choice, and by their conviction that America needs stronger academic results to enhance its national wellbeing and boost its economic competitiveness.

The power of federal taxation clearly is a power of the federal government, but nonetheless some conservatives — sensitized by numerous overreaches during the Obama era in the area of education — are urging that any national scholarship tax credit be subject to approval on a state - by - state basis.

Conservative MP Neil Carmichael, chair of the education select committee, said he was happy with the idea of Sir David floating ideas, but said he still wanted to see more transparency in the RSC system and national commissioner role.

While not every state and local union leader falls into this category, an overwhelming majority do, despite an internal poll by the National Education Association which found that its rank - and - file is slightly more conservative (50 percent) than liberal (43 percent) in political philosophy.

Federal funding for schools has not been effective, asserted some conservative members of Congress at a recent hearing on extending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the main national law aiding public eEducation Act (ESEA), the main national law aiding public educationeducation.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal filed a suit against the Obama administration Wednesday, joining a conservative - led effort to challenge controversial national education standards knows as the Common Core, which Jindal says violate states» sovereignty.

And those conservative lawmakers were in lock - step with the National Education Association on this issue.

As many liberals and conservatives push for national academic standards and other centralizing education reforms, this situation brilliantly illustrates why government schooling is totally antithetical to a free society, and why the more centralized the power, the greater the danger.

From DFER National President Shavar Jeffries: On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate HELP Committee will convene the confirmation hearing for Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Education, conservative activist Betsy DeVos.

But he may wish to ponder on the experience of his predecessor, Kenneth Baker, the Conservative Education Secretary who oversaw the 1988 national curriculum.

This is not overly surprising, however, as the three groups associated with this piece include the uber - conservatives: Education Next, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst, and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

A screen projection shows U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos addressing the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in National Harbor, Md..

With the express mission of unseating Republican governors and flipping control of conservative state legislatures — legacies of the GOP tide in 2010 — the two national unions, in particular, are taking a page out of the playbook of some newer and smaller education advocacy groups: Focus on down - ballot candidates and work up to the top ticket.

Conservatives like Glenn Beck dedicated hours of airtime to his anti-Common Core campaign, telling his listeners that the standards were «a national program» and «a takeover of education.»

Politically conservative educators who reject evidence for global warming are increasingly seeking out supplemental materials that present the skeptical view, said Mark McCaffrey, programs and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a science advocacy group.