Sentences with phrase «of education proposals»

President Bush put forward a fresh round of education proposals last week, calling for all states to test 12th graders under the National Assessment of Educational Progress and outlining a grant program that would encourage low - income students to study mathematics or science in college.

Still, the Massachusetts senator has outlined a series of education proposals, putting flesh on the reform bones in some areas, such as his plans for improving teacher quality and...

A two - month - long surge of protests on the ground and on social media by parents and educators forced Gov. Andrew Cuomo to drop or modify many of the education proposals that he had originally sought to attach to the budget.

As expected, the Senate will push for a $ 1.9 billion increase in education aid, compared to Cuomo's $ 1.1 billion boost that is tied to enacting a number of his education proposals.

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

YORKVILLE — Local parents and politicians are fighting back against a Department of Education proposal that would use an «unprecedented» hybrid admissions process for a new middle school.

National Education Association leaders believe a new Department of Education proposal is a promising proposition toward improving the teaching...

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The first proposal makes it so that a lender can not declare default or accelerate a private education loan when a co-signer of the loan dies or declares bankruptcy.

While the proposal to spend more on things like education, sick leave and health care was sure to delight many members of Obama's own party, the Republicans now fully control Congress.

The nonprofit Flyers Rights, which invests in the airlines through its education fund, has filed shareholder proposals requesting a report from each one that includes an analysis of how its profit margin and stock price could be affected by these trends.

No account taken of the concrete proposals for financing higher education by Quà © bec solidaire or the CLASSE, and no questioning of the ideology of «competitiveness.»

The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong schools, the controversial proposal for a «Moral and National Education'that focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.

Proposals like those contained in the VET Act of 2011 and the bipartisan AGREE Act must be moved forward, so veterans can re-allocate GI Bill entitlements for seed capital or entrepreneurship training (vs. investing in a «traditional» education) or qualify for tax credits on their franchise fees.

As we wrapped up our consideration of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education today, we had what I (at least) thought was a very interesting discussion of the reach of Locke's proposals.

The Holy See returned the bishops» proposal in the summer of 1998, indicating that a second draft of the Application was needed because the first draft did not satisfactorily implement the Pope's vision for Catholic higher education.

The conversations prepared the way for two years of work by a faculty committee that ended with a proposal — and a faculty consensus — that theological education at Candler should be contextual in all aspects.

New proposals will likely include more education on transgenderism and same - sex relationships as well as changes to include teaching about the dangers of pornography and sexting.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

The proposal has also rejected the «clerical paradigm,» the suggestion that the defining goal of theological schooling is the education of church leadership.

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.

Throughout our review of Wood's proposal about what makes theological education theological we have been noting points of convergence with and divergence from the other four voices in this conversation.

Against the sort of picture of theological education illustrated by Stackhouse's proposal, Wood rejects the view that theology bears on action as theory applied to praxis.

Thus Wood's proposal adds an important new issue to the agenda: In what conceptuality do we most fruitfully formulate the basic issues confronting theological education today, propose resolutions of those issues, and debate our disagreements?

The proposal has the advantage of not bringing with it any assumptions about a universal, cross-cultural, ahistorical structure to theological education.

Thus the very way in which the conversation about «theological education» has been conducted gives rise to the third of the three issues to which this proposal is addressed: How can «theological education» be described so that what makes it «theological» is made clear without denying or ignoring its concreteness and the ways in which that concreteness makes it deeply pluralistic?

The banned word list was made public — and attracted considerable criticism — when the city's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New York.

That, of course, is also the proposal of the apostolic constitution on Catholic higher education, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church), which Coughlan does not mention.

Another excellent study is Ferre, Frederick, Shaping the Future: Resources for the Post-Modern World (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1976), especially with its public policy proposals in the realms of religion, politics, economics, and education based on the relational vision.

Hence, even more important than summarizing accurately what they propose will be the effort to trace the movement of their thought as they seek to persuade us of the wisdom of their proposals; so too, more important even than identifying where their proposals explicitly or implicitly exclude one another will be the effort to see how tensions among their contrasting but equally valid insights actually bind them together and force us to find new conceptualities, new frames - of - reference for our analyses of what is theological about theological education.

Thanks to his foresight, however, the state constitutions remained to frustrate the various proposals made by the new majorities seeking to democratize education by subsidizing all manner of families and institutions.

Such proposals lead to what is often a blind celebration of diversity and pluralism, resulting in a do - it - yourself approach to theological education.

The proposals of John B. Cobb, Jr., and Joseph C. Hough, Jr., for the reform of theological education may be found in Christian Identity and Theological Education (Chico, California: The Scholars Preseducation may be found in Christian Identity and Theological Education (Chico, California: The Scholars PresEducation (Chico, California: The Scholars Press, 1985).

Without any necessary connotation of Christianity or theological education, the proposals of Cobb and Hough are highly suggestive for other fields.

Benjamin Franklin came close when he spoke of «Publick Religion» in his pamphlet of 1750 entitled proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania.

Although a majority of a special committee on theological education supported the proposal, the minority was able to rally Conference support to its position.

My first proposal for the reorganization of higher education accented the distinctive role of the professions and the importance of liberal arts in this context.

To clarify this, I will describe some of these needs as I see them and then make proposals for what a responsive form of higher education might be.

In my concluding proposal, I have criticized current higher education, including liberal arts colleges, and expressed my hope that they can direct some of their vast resources to helping humanity find its way through its most difficult problems.

In making this proposal I am building on a suggestion first advanced by James F. Hopewell.Growing out of years of involvement in a group exploring different ways to study congregations [1] and his own ground - breaking Congregation: Stories and Structures, [2] Hopewell wrote an essay, «A Congregational Paradigm for Theological Education.»

Two very different proposals about the nature and purpose of excellent theological education are examined in this chapter.

This chapter gives a review of a series of proposals specifically about theological education in the first half of the twentieth century in the United States that accord with the «Berlin» type but make important and equally problematic modifications in it.

Too often the answer to this question is left implicit in proposals about the nature and purpose of theological education, and the answer's coherence with the view of theology that the proposals adopt is left unexamined.

How far do the pictures of the nature of theology that underwrite proposals about the nature and purpose of theological education require misleading distinctions?

In that context, in the following two lectures, I will say something about the history of higher education and offer proposals as to the particular responsibility of colleges and universities.

It is particularly instructive in showing the possibility of reconceiving the unity of theological education on a teleological basis (as have the other proposals), but without postulating an ideal «essential» structure to the education's ultimate subject matter.

This clearly locates the proposal with the «Berlin» type of excellent education.

Simply within the framework of Stackhouse's proposal, even if the implied picture of reason is granted, it is unclear that it can coherently hold together the wissenschaftlich education required by focus on God's truth and the paideia in piety called for by focus on God's justice.

This clearly locates his proposal within the «Berlin» type of excellent education: «Theological education in seminaries prepares leaders for the churches.

In this regard the proposal recovers the theological integrity of the «professional» education pole of the «Berlin» type from distortions in prevailing twentieth - century modifications.

Stackhouse's proposal can be read to urge that theological education must shape the will by a paideia that forms in students dispositions to «right action,» to Christian praxis.9 The «basis» of this praxis is a piety structured by institutions, policy, and principle.