Sentences with phrase «of liberal schools»

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Walk into a store — old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of technology and the liberal arts).

At Bowdoin College, the second - ranked liberal - arts school on our list, first - year students can choose from 35 first - year seminars and are required to take a course in each of five general subject areas.

Both of these schools, along with academics in general, tend to be seen as liberal.

Rather, the former talk show host, entrepreneur, actress, and philanthropist receiving an honorary doctorate of letters by the liberal arts school, urged the class of 2017 to channel something more basic: cultivate a clear vision of who you are and what moves you.

Whether the college endowment tax was politically targeted or part of a larger plan to push schools to lower the barrier to entry, it doesn't change the reality that many liberal arts colleges stand to lose significant endowment income.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

In the days after the shooting, conservative blogs picked up a narrative later promoted by everyone from Limbaugh to Laura Ingraham that Broward had adopted a bleeding - heart disciplinary program because of a liberal, Obama - led effort to keep crime statistics down and criminals in schools.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

«The Liberals need to immediately scrap their policy of funneling scarce healthcare and education dollars into private sector projects and start using the Pacific Carbon Trust to lower the carbon footprint of schools and hospitals,» said Dix.

A letter released today by the president of the B.C. School Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classSchool Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classschool districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classrooms.

«School districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builSchool districts are currently being forced to cut money from classrooms to pay for the Liberals» failure to take action on improving the energy efficiency of public school builschool buildings.

«New Democrats are calling on the Liberals to use the Pacific Carbon Trust to reduce the carbon footprint of our schools and hospitals instead of giving handouts to big polluters like Encana.»

VANCOUVER — New Democrat leader Adrian Dix is calling on the Liberals to immediately fix the Pacific Carbon Trust and end the Liberal practice of taking money from schools and hospitals and using it to subsidize big polluters like Encana.

Andrea: I received my BA in Psychology from the University of Puget Sound, a small liberal arts school in Tacoma, WA.

Mr. Taylor earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota Institute of Technology, a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese and a Bachelor of Arts in Russian both from the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

TUTORIAL: The Austrian School Of Economics The Classical - Liberal Perspective The accepted mainstream view about central banks, such as the Federal Reserve, is that we need them to manage economic growth and ensure prosperity through interest rate manipulation and other interventions.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

Here's what actually happened... The liberal courts decided that prayer and any mention of God is not welcome in public schools.

Liberal and old school Theologians as well as non believers find their way based upon the light they are given even though they may be miles apart on understanding what is the meaning of the Angel of Lord.

There is not a day that goes by that their is some liberal telling me what I can say and not say (political correctness), what I should and should not eat, what I should and should not wear, what light bulbs I have to buy, what car I should and should not drive, indoctrinate my children in schools with left wing dribble, take my property and do things with it I don't approve of.

At the beginning of his years as a seminary professor» most of them spent at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC)» Braaten was on the liberal side of the American Lutheran political and theological spectrum.

I recall attending an adult Sunday school class at one liberal church where the diffusion of Christian identity and the dynamics of secular drift were almost palpable.

Ravitch concludes by praising the «1000 schools [that] use the Core Knowledge Curriculum, which describes explicitly what shall be taught in the full range of liberal arts and sciences in each grade.»

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

He wrote no book himself, but his disciples spread his liberal teachings and founded the Hanaifi school of jurisprudence which is found in Turkey, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, and Egypt.

As to curriculum, Dupré points out that many Catholic schools have reduced the ideal of a Catholic liberal education to «a few courses on religion, ethics, and a smattering of philosophy in an otherwise wholly pragmatically oriented curriculum.»

Third, there are liberal constitutional arguments for requiring, not just permitting, the study of religion in public schools.

There are good liberal, secular reasons for incorporating the serious study of religion into the curriculum of public schools.

And it happened further that the representatives of the other theological schools and tendencies in Germany — Liberal, Pietist, Confessional, Biblicist — who had previously.

Not Republicans versus Democrats, nor liberals versus conservatives, nor rival schools of foreign policy you read about in college courses.

I've only heard of two schools from the combined lists of Top 5 most conservative and Top 5 most liberal (BYU and Wheaton).

That's kind of like saying I learned my multiplication tables in grade school and accept the truth that 2 +2 = 4, but that Algebra stuff those satanic liberals and all those math guys the world over are trying to shove down my throat are lies meant to deceive us and lead us into hell.

From his vantage point as president of Harvard, Bok analyzes the dilemmas of liberal education, showing how its coexistence with the demands of professional schools in times of change and uncertainty requires its advocates to set it on a sound course.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

Lindbeck's «experiential - expressivist» model does a reasonably good job of accounting for the romantic and mystical streams of liberal theology, but it does not account for variants of liberal theology that make gospel - centered claims (such as the tradition of evangelical» liberalism), that base their affirmations on metaphysical arguments (such as the Whiteheadian process school) or that appeal to gospel norms and metaphysical arguments (such as the Boston personalist school).

Never one to pull a punch, Barr exhibits a directness that is sometimes refreshing, as in his characterization of «the sort of liberal / postmodern mixture influential in the so - called «liberal» churches and theological schools, where the gospel is a combination of altruism, egalitarianism, anti-elitism, pluralism, multiculturalism, and political correctness.»

«Some of us just have a hard time supporting a person who said he was going to be more liberal on gay rights than Ted Kennedy,» said Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, referring to remarks Romney made in a 1994 letter.

On Saturday Bruce Ackerman, a notoriously liberal Yale Law School Professor, took to the editorial pages of the Washington Post to criticize General McChrystal.

To become a physician one studied for thirty - two months in the faculty of liberal arts and an additional five and a half years in the school of medicine.

It was Benedict XVI's visit to Britain which encouraged the directors of PACT to put into operation their long - cherished plan to set up two secondary schools, and it was his words that gave the Benedictus College for the liberal arts its impetus.

In 1906 the newly elected Liberal government proposed an Education Bill which sought a dramatic reform of English schooling.

The most prevalent argument currently offered on behalf of liberal education is that it best prepares the student for graduate or professional school, for executive leadership in business, or for being a wife or mother in a professional or executive family.

This link between the virtues and the liberal arts can also be seen in the work of the two new PACT schools, The Cedars and The Laurels.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

Both the more fundamentalist Moody Bible Institute and the more liberal Mount Hermon schools derive from Moody and may be said to represent genuine facets of Moody himself.

The battle of the bumper stickers between conservatives and liberals in the late «60s and early «70s predictably was fought from such Sunday school formations; evangelicals, fundamentalists and charismatics fired volleys of «Christ is the Answer!

With the tremendous prestige of modern technology and with financial help coming from industry and government, there is pressure even on liberal arts colleges to become technical schools.

I would not be at all surprised if The Tablet had not been looking for an opportunity to make clear its displeasure at what they have seen as his betrayal of the liberal cause ever since their bitter disillusion all those years ago over the establishment of the firmly Catholic St. Gregory's School in Oxford and the dismantling of its truly awful ecumenical (which in effect meant functionally secular) predecessor.

At the opposite extreme from Schweitzer and his school are those liberal interpreters who regard the second sense of the «kingdom of God» as normative for Jesus.