Sentences with phrase «of educational activists»

Ruth Asawa should be an inspiration for generations of educational activists to come.

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It is accessible to individual labour activists who wish to deepen their understanding of the role of unions — both inside and outside the workplace — and should be widely adopted for use in post-secondary labour studies courses and union educational programs.

The event takes place from February 1 — 4, 2012, and is the largest ecological agricultural gathering in the West, offering more than 60 workshops, and a comprehensive array of educational and networking sessions for 1,500 farmers, marketers, activists, consumers, students, and educators.

As the dust settles on the party's choice, the question remains of how, in practical terms — and how much, in political terms — the WFP endorsement will help Nixon, an actress and educational activist making her first run for political office.

U.S. Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, a longtime donor and activist with an extensive history of funding school reform initiatives, was grilled on a plethora of educational policies and her financial background Tuesday evening during her confirmation hearing before a U.S. Senate committee.

Buffalo schools open in a month and a large group of clergy, activists, parents and school leaders turned out Monday night in Friendship Baptist Church for an emergency meeting to discuss what they see as an educational crisis.

But it also served a dual political purpose: It jabbed at the tradition of mayoral control of New York City's schools, and it also allowed the governor to take an aggressive stand on the issue of educational equity — a marquee issue of Ms. Nixon, a longtime education activist who has placed the issue squarely at the heart of the early stages of her campaign.

For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms of power and domination.

Two Projects Win Social Entrepreneurship Conference Harvard Crimson, 5/4/15 «Judges named two intiatives, Educational Justice Activists and Prepped, as winners at an educational entrepreneurship conference on Friday for students enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Education course A132: Educational Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective.»

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

There is little research about the impact of school closings on student achievement, according to Barbara Gross of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, a nonprofit educational research and policy group that has been giving technical help to the activists.

As the son of an educator and activists, El - Mekki had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.

I feel like this call of action is waging a war between educational advocates and civil rights activists.

Chicago, IL — November 20, 2014 At 10:30 a.m. over 120 educational justice activists in the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM) in Chicago held a press conference on the 5th floor of City Hall demanding that Mayor Rahm Emanuel support 50 sustainable community schools.

«They're up against a huge onslaught right now,» said Ms. Dean, who sees a chance for them to build a more «activist, engaged» membership that can help drive the policy debate on educational matters instead of playing defense.

The Chicago office of international educational nonprofit Facing History and Ourselves and The Allstate Foundation present a free Community Conversation event on Thursday, November 12 at 6 p.m. with New York Times bestselling author, American photojournalist and human rights activist Lynsey Addario.

And considering that Virginia has done little to address its educational woes — including addressing the mere one - percent decline in the percentage of young black men in fourth - grade mired in functional illiteracy (as measured on the National Assessment of Educational Progress) between 2003 and 2011 — Gov. Bob McDonnell, state Supt. Patricia Wright, and their colleagues were rightfully shamed by reformers and civil rights activists into revamping those targets (and the Obama administration, which also moved to push Virginia into revising them, deserves criticism for accepting those low targets in the first place).

Volunteer activists in the test resistance movement who formed United Opt Out in 2011 have become so disruptive to the standardized testing establishment that their website was recently «hacked into and destroyed — along with a great deal of their web - based educational tools,» according to a report at Alternet, including «years of research, with an archive of guides and tutorials for opting out tailored specifically to almost every U.S. state.»

In this remarkable collection of educational journeys toward learning and liberation, students, scholars, and activists bring to life the ideas and histories of groups that have been silenced in mainstream educational arenas.

Milwaukee educator and civil rights activist Howard Fuller believes one of the best ways to close the longstanding educational gap between -LSB-...]

And as a new generation of African - American activists are coming to the fore, they're saying: Why are these organizations setting the agenda for educational change in our communities and not engaging us in the discussion?

In addition, the Informal Education Homepage (www.infed.org /) is an excellent source for historic descriptions of core educational philosophers and activists who are associated with these alternatives, including Paulo Freire, Carl Rogers, Maria Montessori, John Dewey, and many others.

As the son of an educator and activists, I had a strong desire to dive into a cause that would address issues relating to social justice, equity and educational opportunities.

I at BAEO's annual symposium, which brings together parents, policymakers and education activists from all over the country to fight for ensuring that all African - American children have a range of high - quality educational options available to them.

This inspired biography of the Nobel Prize — winning Kenyan political and environmental activist has aesthetic and educational qualities that make it a classroom must - have.

She is passionate about furthering the ideals of access in education, conceiving new alternative educational models, teaching the intersectionality of struggles, and promoting open source and new media alternatives for activists and frontline communities.

She found her calling as an educational activist in 1968 and in 1973 had her first retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Climate change activists are touting new evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of educational programs that seek to transform American schoolchildren into anti-carbon activists through the power of animation and freestyle rapping.

Beachapedia captures decades of experience and knowledge gained by Surfrider Foundation activists, scientists and staff through hundreds of environmental and educational campaigns on our coasts.

Through a variety of educational campaigns my fellow activists and I have helped Newton finance a number of solar installations on our schools.

The Washington Post is giving free media to what it calls «some of the country's most respected environmental groups» — helping them spin absurd street theater like CarnivOil into «educational» programs about saving Planet Earth (with vile oil executives bribing boxing referees and knocking out crab - costumed activists).

As the investigators reveal, the billionaires» green network transfers millions of dollars from individual, corporate, and «charitable foundation» donors... through tax - exempt «educational» nonprofits that do not have to disclose donor names... to activist and pressure groups that work to influence elections, legislation, regulations, legal actions and public perceptions on energy and environmental issues.

This year's show focuses one hour on each of the world's 24 largest CO2 - emitting countries, featuring performances, educational segments, appearances by experts and activists, and live commentary by former US Vice President Al Gore and others — all focused on how each country can do its part to make the goals of the Paris Agreement a reality.

discussion of science education, and putting aside Edward Greisch's denigration of the humanities, and putting aside the fact that among the most ardent and activist proponents of action against AGW there are many musicians, writers, artists and filmmakers, and putting aside the fact that among the most obstinate and willfully ignorant denialists there are a considerable number of engineers and other technical types who have exactly the sort of educational background that he suggests as an antidote to denialism:

We have more news this morning that FIJA's educational outreach efforts are paying off through the hard work of activists nationwide, this time from San Diego, California: Filner Urges «Jury Nullification» In Medical Pot Dispensary Case San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has injected himself into a federal criminal case against the operator of a medical -LSB-...]

Asa Hilliard, one of the pioneering activist leaders concerned about African American children thriving in the educational system, always emphasized the centrality of nurturing and high expectations in the teacher — child relationship.