Sentences with phrase «of conservative education»

It comes after two other members of the Conservative education team — schools minister Nick Gibb and skills minister Nick Boles — threw their support behind Gove.

By this time, Ravitch had become fully ensconced in the world of conservative education reform.

He went on to regale listeners as to the range of routes now available to becoming a teacher, for teachers to teach how they saw best and at the same time enjoying an elevated status, all as a result of Conservative education reforms.

Interviewed in October on the Today Show, President Obama seemed to be channeling a generation of conservative education analysts in stating bluntly that more money absent reform won't do much to improve public schools.

While I'm very sympathetic to Dreher's hope (I teach at a school that advertises itself as Christian), I see something problematic in a kind of greenhouse theory of conservative education in which students are reared and taught within an engineered, not - in - the - world atmosphere.

Not exact matches

'' [Bush's] big areas of focus have always been on education and refocusing people on opportunities, no matter what income bracket they are born into,» says Stan Veuger, resident economist for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

«Education and health systems are already overloaded,» said Steven Camarota, director of research at the conservative Center for Immigration Studies.

The conservative Public Notice Research and Education Fund took in $ 1,821,000 in grants in 2011, $ 1,244,000 of which — almost 70 percent — came from Donors Trust.

This is a warning shot across the bow of higher education, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives.

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At the federal level, an Obama - era education law contained parts of the Youth PROMISE Act, which was filed annually for years and had support from conservatives.

The fields of academia and education are one of the most conservative fields — there are centuries - old traditions and conventional that has remained in use to the detriment of new technology.

The single most discouraging thing to come out of the sudden leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario are new promises to roll back the sex education curriculum by candidates in this race.

Ramming through the Redford government's cuts to post-secondary education, the powerful Mr. Lukaszuk frequently speaks as if he leads the government, leading some conservatives to suggest he has leadership ambitions of his own.

In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

Thomas Lukaszuk: The bull - dog of the Progressive Conservative caucus lost his Deputy Premier title and is moved from Enterprise & Advanced Education to a new Jobs, Skills, Training, and Labour portfolio.

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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.

Fortunately for the GOP, Christian conservatives do not believe in education and just are not intelligent enough to realize that the GOP is only using them to gain power so that they can implement policies that benefit the Top 5 % at the exclusion of the rest of America, Christian conservatives included.

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

While 67 % of democrats view a college education as a possitive thing, only 46 % of conservative Republicans said colleges and universities have a positive impact, while nearly as many (39 %) said they have a negative effect.

And would I tremble to give the advice, because the logical result of such a start - new - conservative - colleges - because - the existing - ones - have - proven - hopelessly - dominated - by - leftists - and - technocrats strategy is an ideologically segregated system of higher education.

But conservatives who want every child to be born but cut all education and health programs are full of bull.

And, of course, it is conservatives who are pressing for the basic justice of parental choice in education, a choice taken for granted by the affluent.

But some conservative commentators, after narrating all the outrageous anecdotes, seem baffled for a positive program of cultural education, and others even seem positively anticultural — as though willing to admit that the ideologies of the secularists are what constitute the humanities.

The new education secretary named in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet reshuffle is a Christian and a trustee of the Conservative Christian Fellowship.

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.

Wayland and the other reformers saw the church as a principal source of the conservative resistance they met in their efforts to open higher education to intellectually capable students.

I know a lot of conservatives (old school) that are not very religious and they are strong education supporters.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

Conservatives and liberals alike have debated the use of faith - development theory in Christian education.1

Although partially attributable to conservatives» perceptions or misperceptions of progressivist campus values, the change also highlights a palpable negative sentiment toward higher education across the country.

You would do well to listen to a Catholic who has had nearly 20 years of religious education, 10 of which were with teachers from two religious orders, both of which were conservative, when it comes to the similarities and common traits of all religions.

But if that is the case, why are there so few public statements, with the «conservative» label attached to them, that tell us exactly what policy should be in the matter of education, welfare provision, environmental protection, planning law, urbanization, infrastructure, and everything else that matters to the ordinary citizen?

That is the kind of development that conservatives need to ponder, asking themselves how education can be rescued from the state, without reducing it to a privilege that only a few can afford, and without abandoning the children of wastrels to their fate.

A growing coalition of conservative political leaders, religious groups and government officials is leading the attack against publicly supported programs of sex education, school - based health centers, guidance programs in family planning, and other activities designed to address the sexual needs of youth from both a social and a health perspective.

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

For the record, some countries (like the former Soviet Union) did perform abortions very frequently because there weren't other effective forms of birth control.Some conservatives that I speak with counter my argument about birth control by suggesting that everyone needs to be responsible for the cost, education and hassle of this themselves.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

His «vision of a traditional service infused with English, decorum, and modern education,» writes Michael R. Cohen in his recent book, The Birth of Conservative Judaism, was perfectly compatible with what later became known as «Modern Orthodoxy.»

Funny, when I was young I was more conservative (though I didn't really know it), but my ideals became more politically liberal the more I saw of the larger world and the more education I achieved.

But, Tough adds, the contributions of character traits to students» success goes a long way toward refuting conservative «cognitive determinists» like Charles Murray, who claim that success is mainly a function of IQ and that education is largely about sorting people and giving the brightest the chance to take full advantage of their potential.

The tendency has been to bog down in fights between the Right and the Left, where conservatives were worried that character education programs were all about teaching mushy diversity and general sort of tolerance, and liberals were worried that character education was about teaching religion and more conservative values.

«Local authorities have created groups to share best practice, and we're seeing what I hope is an increasing trend to stop treating home education as a problem to be regulated, and instead see it as an opportunity to be facilitated and supported,» said the Conservative MP and former chairman of the education select committee.

David Cameron was forced to square up to the grassroots in June after his former education spokesman David Willetts said the Conservative party would not support the building of any new grammar schools.

Over 8,000 people have signed a petition set up by former head of Conservative Future Gavin Megaw calling on the education secretary to remove guidance that lists «extra physical activity such as running around a playing field» as a recommended punishment.

That's certainly the view of Graham Stuart, the Conservative chair of the Commons» education committee.