Sentences with phrase «of education justice»

Jane writes and speaks frequently on issues of education justice and access, the impact of poverty on children's life outcomes, the policy and practice implications of concentrated poverty and trauma on children, school climate, student discipline and attendance.

Kyle Serrette Director of Education Justice Campaigns Center for Popular Democracy Shital C. Shah Assistant Director, Education Issues American Federation of Teachers Bela Shah Spooner Program Manager, Afterschool Initiatives Institute for Youth, Education, and Families National League of Cities Joann Weeks Associate Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania Ira Harkavy Chair Emeritus Associate Vice President and Director Netter Center for Community Partnerships University of Pennsylvania

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The curriculum will be developed in consultation with a number of prominent African American organizations and figures including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

Through her work at Emerson Collective, Laurene has been a longtime leader in areas of education, immigration, social justice and the environment, and has demonstrated that she shares Ted Leonsis's belief in a double bottom line philosophy: that the companies that do best are those that do good in their communities.

Responding to those calls, House lawmakers proposed $ 2.3 billion in March toward funding mental health, additional training, and school safety programs at the Departments of Justice, Education and Health and Human Services.

The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, ceo of the Anti-Defamation League.

Their ambitious agenda in pursuit of «transformational change» includes K - 12 education, criminal justice, scientific integrity, and more.

Starbucks said it would develop the curriculum for the training with guidance from experts including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director - counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; Heather McGhee, president of Demos; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; and Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

El Puente, a Latino organization based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, that focuses on social justice, education and climate change issues, has raised enough money to purchase thousands of lanterns — which Puerto Ricans on the island view as a glimmer of hope to help guide them through the dark.

In addition to this general statement, the Party also provides a detailed summary of its policies in key areas, including health care, the economy, democratic reform, education, the environment, and social justice and issues.

Schmidt is currently serving as Minister of Advanced Education and Acting Minister of Justice and Solicitor General.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The guidelines specify some of those issues: agricultural workers, capital punishment, criminal justice, housing, parochial schools, pornography, and sex education.

The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

I also think that Christian values of forgiveness and justice have powerfully impacted culture, justice system, welfare state, education etc, but maybe this is true of some Islamic tradtions!

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.

Top priority of the campaign is to call on elected officials to create legislation that supports economic justice, anti-racism and anti-white supremacy policies, women's rights, the ending of voter suppression, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, as well as affordable quality housing, healthcare and education.

Whether we place our faith in science, religion, education, government, the justice system or nothing more than the accuracy of the tube map in the front of our diary, each one of us lives by faith in whatever we trust to be reliable and true.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

So a fundamental part of education is to expose such hidden or explicit purposes and presuppositions and critically examine them and transform them to a conscious commitment to a world - view which sees nature, humanity and cosmos within an organic life system working within an ultimate framework of a spiritual movement of self - determining selves towards a community of justice and love.

The college of education at the University of Alabama is officially committed «to preparing individuals to promote social justice, to be change agents, and to recognize individuals and institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism.»

Christians of all races can learn how longstanding policies and practices around housing, education, and criminal justice disproportionately harm some of their neighbors.

In 1947, all nine Supreme Court Justices - at least seven of whom were Masons - agreed in Everson v. Board of Education that the Constitution re?quired separation.

Next to the role of prophetic guide to justice in community, no role is so neglected by clergy as prophetic guide to education.

That leads on a pathway too permanent inner happiness.you people think you solving the world with your limited areas of buisness and criminal justice degrees or phony rip off international banking degrees.there is more education and technology but have not solved global poverty so sad.and most of you commit suicide which makes you a selfish sob and the root cause of it is false hope and GREED

Since public education is controlled through agencies of government, racial justice in education depends upon equal political rights and responsibilities for all citizens regardless of color, religion, or national origin.

History has shown that religion is not healthy for children, the planet, freedom, innocent civilians, people of other religions, little boys who trust priests, justice for the poor, education, knowledge of the world around us, social health, the arts...

Thus a characterization of theology and of what makes theological education theological that is cast, like Wood's, in terms of «action» already has conceptually built into it resources for addressing the justice issues so central to the sort of position illustrated by the Mud Flower Collective's proposal.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

Yet after covertly helping civil rights groups set up a well - funded Voter Education Project in 1961, the administration failed to provide the protection that activists required if they were to survive the intimidation of segregationists and what passed for justice in southern courts.

The school desegregation story illustrates the general principle that to the degree that control of education is not exercised with a sense of responsibility for justice, Federal control will be introduced.

My education in the functioning of justice, American style, moved forthwith from television, newspapers and civics books to the courtroom, the jury room and the jurors» sleeping quarters in the courthouse.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Its task reflects its divine character in its mission whereby it serves Christ by the sword for punishment and justice and along with education for goodness.58 A further divine implication is the claim of government on conscience, or obedience «for the Lord's sake» (1 Pet.

To be successful in addressing issues of justice, land reforms must be accompanied by the development of «infrastructures» such as credit for the poor, agricultural extension services, conservation education, and supportive industrial development.

Neutrality is impossible, for the political order must embody someone's values; thus, the demands of justice are for a social order directed toward cooperation and an education productive of altruistic and benevolent citizens.

Justice, as a theme of education, is intertwined with solidarity, communication and dialogue.

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

The spaces of theological education, filled with persons who are different and seeking justice, are already «dialogical» places where lives meet and where bodies interact on physical, emotional and linguistic levels.

Justice, as a basic theme of theological education, is central to each practice of feminist theological education.

But the church is not consistent — that is, not with this one - sided presentation of Jesus» message — and it recognizes the importance of such «worldly» matters as education, hygiene, social justice, wages, freedom, and the common welfare.

I want to contend that feminist theology both requires and contributes a process of education that is a training in justice, dialogue and imagination, even as it is an implantation of ideas from the past.

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

This logic of gratuitousness, learnt in infancy and adolescence, is then lived out in every area of life... once it has been assimilated it can be applied to the most complex areas of political and economic life... It is here that the lay faithful are called to give generously of the formation they have received, guided by the principles of the Church's Social Doctrine, for the sake of authentic secularism, social justice, the defence of life and of the family, freedom of religion and education.

Can we attempt to rally together to promote the cause of JUSTICE — education, the wellbeing of families... all those things that promote the inherent worth of all people.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

Even «good Christians» on the side of proper science education and social justice believe in the supernatural.

The problems as to the legitimacy of moral education in the pubic schools disappear, however, if the proper content of moral education is recognized to be the values of justice which themselves prohibit the imposition of beliefs of one group upon another... [This] does not mean that the schools are not to be «value - oriented.»