Sentences with phrase «of excellent education»

We chose this city of nearly 42,000 to fill our number 10 spot because of its excellent education rating and the high percentage of families with young children.

As an immigrant, and the child of parents whose first language is not English but who pushed me to excel in school, I recognize that I am where I am today in large part because of an excellent education.

As a result, the teacher leader seeks to promote a sense of partnership among these different groups toward the common goal of excellent education.

Lisa Graham Keegan is currently the principal partner at the Keegan Company, where her major projects include serving as a senior advisor to National School Choice Week, a celebration of all excellent education options for students, and as the executive director of A for Arizona, a joint project of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that seeks to rapidly increase the number of «A» quality public schools in the state.

This year's conference title is Onward: Excellence and Equity, grounding our conference offerings in the connected themes of excellent education for all students and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Moving forward, we must all hold our community and elected leaders accountable for ensuring the promise of an excellent education for every student in New Orleans.

highlights Colorado's «outliers»: school districts that «buck the trend either by getting notable results for students compared to other school systems in the state, or where the promise of an excellent education remains too distant.»

A + Colorado's latest report highlights Colorado's «outliers»: school districts that «buck the trend either by getting notable results for students compared to other school systems in the state, or where the promise of an excellent education remains too distant.»

Can Rhee provide a model of reform for the entire country, delivering on her promise of an excellent education for every child?

Today, the first 18 projects of this Parliament have had the green light - creating more than 9,000 places across the country and giving more families the choice of an excellent education for their children than ever before.

Why aren't we expanding and replicating success so that every student in every community has access to the golden ticket of an excellent education?

Clearly, this proposal is an instance of the «Athens» type of excellent education modified to incorporate some of the «Berlin» type.

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

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

(ENTIRE BOOK) For Kelsey, «Athens» (based on the Greek paideia, «culturing,» «character formation,») and «Berlin» (based on the German Wissenschaft, «orderly,» «disciplined critical research,» «professional») represent two very different — and ultimately irreconcilable — models of excellent education.

If you judge the theological education is some version of a movement from source to personal appropriation, you will negotiate from within the «Athens» type of excellent education and on its terms.

Clearly, even in Plato's proposed revision, paideia is a model of excellent education defined by the goal of capacitating people for political and public action.

For historical reasons, North American Christian theological education has come to be as inescapably committed to the «Berlin» type of excellent education as it is to the «Athens» type.

However, as we shall see in the next chapter, in the modern world it is not possible simply to settle for paideia as the model of excellent education.

Not exact matches

The region does an excellent job of importing talent as our institutes of higher education are worldwide magnets for young achievers.

That's excellent advice, whether it's getting more education or training, to improve a skill you already have or to learn a new one — or whether it's starting a company of your own.

As Singal sees it, «Why wouldn't you take advantage of your resources, your excellent education and a great network to do something meaningful and solve the problems of the world?»

Olsson Capital provides traders with an excellent trader experience in terms of security, features, user - friendliness, tools, and education.

The success of the concurrent delegations was an excellent example of how Canada can capitalize on some of its constitutional similarities with India — in this case, the devolution of power over issues such as education and national - resource management to the provinces — in order to improve relations for Canada as a whole.

«An excellent education in engineering or business can go a long way, but a program that combines both will provide the best of both worlds.

MEC has been a customer of Bullfrog Power since 2007, and has a long history in Vancouver, making them an excellent bridge between SPEC's education programs and Bullfrog's energy initiatives.

• Reviewing Philip Gleason's excellent history of Catholic higher education, Contending with Modernity, our premier evangelical church historian, Mark Noll of Wheaton, says Gleason's argument has much wider application.

To promote the common good, society must use government's powers of taxation to ensure that every child has access to the necessary funds for an excellent education.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

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.

At the same time, Catholic professors criticized their institutions for intellectual mediocrity, redefined «academic excellence» in line with the standards of leading graduate schools, and turned (with equivocal success) to theology to provide what Holy Cross historian David O'Brien has termed «the bridge between the older Catholic identity and the newer, more excellent version of Catholic higher education.»

Under the democracy of worth, education is directed toward the learning of what is excellent.

I'll never forget my first seminary campus visit, during which the tour guide ignored me completely and directed all his commentary to the male prospective students, until we passed one of the education buildings and he mentioned their excellent preaching classes.

It furnishes us with a clear and authentic statement of Catholic teaching on education and provides excellent guidance and suggestions for its implementation in Catholic schools.

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.

However, the «Berlin» type of excellent schooling did dictate prevailing standards of academically respectable education, which theological education embraced and to which it has held itself accountable.

Schleiermacher had an answer to these objections, and his successful argument for including a theology faculty in the University of Berlin added a second pole to the «Berlin» type of excellent theological education: Theological education should be included as «professional» education.

This bipolarity is the central structure of the «Berlin» type of excellent theological education.

These two types are of varying ages — the «Berlin» type of excellent Christian theological education only emerged in the early nineteenth century, while the «Athens» type had emerged by the end of the first Christian century.

Both types of excellent schooling are deeply institutionalized in the practices that constitute American theological education of all sorts; neither one can simply be abandoned by a faculty vote!

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

The decision, reached after considerable controversy, to include a faculty of theology in the newly founded University of Berlin in 1810 created a new type of excellent theological education for which we shall let «Berlin» be the symbol.

Many of us atheists started out with 12 years of an excellent Catholic education.

Thus Niebuhr moves to correct the problem in the revisions of the «Berlin» model of excellent theological schooling that we noted in the earlier reflections of Harper, Kelly, and Brown on North American Protestant theological education.

The «Berlin» type of excellent theological education, which 1 comprises the two distinct enterprises of Wissenschaft and «professional» education for ministry, came to dominate Protestant theological education in North America by the middle of the twentieth century, in large part in the wake of a series of major studies of theological education that were widely read and sometimes led to significant reforms.

The insistence that theological education must keep students in touch with current intellectual and cultural developments is, of course, Kelly's and Brown's recapitulation of the «Berlin» model's contention that excellent education must engage the public world.

His formal education gave him excellent preparation for the religious aspects of this endeavor, since the only academic degree he ever earned was in theology, after a three - year course of study at Cambridge University.

The «Berlin» type of excellent Christian theological education only emerged in the early nineteenth century, while the «Athens» type had emerged by the end of the first Christian century.

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

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