Sentences with phrase «on educational freedom»

As dinner ended attendees piled into the LIU Auditorium for Jonathan Kozol's keynote on educational freedom, inequality, and justice.

* Fordham Industries makes no claims as to political feasibility, impact on educational freedom, immediate assistance to children in failing schools, parental rights, religious educational options, pedagogical diversity, educational innovation, public value conflicts, size of the tax burden, fairness to private school families, student achievement, or civic values.

Notable models are Democratic Free Schools and programs, such as the Institute for Democratic Education (IDEA) and the Sudbury School, which focuses on educational freedom, democratic governance and personal responsibility.

Not exact matches

He started the Education Freedom Fund, which awarded more than 4,000 scholarships to underprivileged children in Michigan, the West Michigan Aviation Academy, (a High School that aims to provide a rigorous educational program through an aviation focus), and has served on the State Board of Education.

We follow a parenting / educational philosophy called radical unschooling which is very much based on gentle parenting and allowing your children the freedom to work out what their interests are and giving them freedom to learn in a connection partnership with their parents.

So also a university in a free society is devoted in intellectual freedom to the pursuit of the universal, liberating knowledge and wisdom that are objectives of the society; it is on the other hand a teaching institution where men are equipped to direct the affairs of the governmental, legal, cultural, educational and economic institutions of the society.

For he places educational authority on a ground which is not merely consistent with freedom, but is also the necessary condition for the achievement of such freedom as a wise education can guarantee.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

I am fighting for true equality for all; for equal pay and fair treatment at work, expanded voting rights, educational equity, criminal justice reform, freedom from gun violence in our schools and on our streets, and health care for all Americans.

It is a much deserved recognition of its immense contribution to the fight for free and fair trade unions and to securing quality education for children and young people in Bahrain «This award will help to maintain the pressure on the Bahraini authorities to end their completely unjustified detention of Mahdi, who has spent the last four years in prison on false charges for simply exercising his right to freedom of assembly and demanding reforms to Bahrain's educational system.»

They agree on the need to target educational resources on pupils from deprived backgrounds, and have also agreed to pass a freedom, or great reform, bill that will scrap ID cards and the next generation of biometric passports.

That response drew yet another from the university and its public record custodian urging the state appellate court to either protect the competitive interests of Arizona's higher educational institutions by defending «the freedom, vigor, candor and integrity of the researchers who work there» or rule on its own that «the need to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the work done at Arizona's universities» outweighs the public's right to know.

Giving us more freedom to focus entirely on our studies, without the substantial stress and burden of navigating the financial pressures of paying for graduate school,» he says, adding that his conversations with fellow scholars have been some of the most engaging, educational, and exciting that he has ever had.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

Blogs may be great educational tools and they give students complete freedom to publish content on the web, but if you don't know how to effectively implement them into the classroom, they're only as good as wadded up balls of paper in the trash.

They are an improvement on traditional school - choice programs because they enhance the freedom of parents to purchase a wide variety of educational products and services and save for educational expenses in future years, including college.

The case for charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of «marketized» education rests not only on educational performance but also on the claims of freedom of conscience.

If we want a high degree of equality, more states should consider following Friedman's advice and focus efforts on expanding educational freedom and choice.

www.muslimadvocates.org Muslim Advocates: A national legal advocacy and educational organization that works on the front lines of civil rights to guarantee freedom and justice for Americans of all faiths

Both the Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship and the Special Needs ESA were built on the recognition that each child has unique gifts and needs and parents need freedom to find an educational setting that serves their children well.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC's president, Darryl Allison, said in a statement following Judge Hobgood's decision to halt the program while the merits of the case are decided, «while we respect the court's decision, we are deeply disappointed on behalf of the thousands of working - class families who desired this educational option,» he said.

«His bold and visionary leadership has been instrumental in our efforts to give millions of families across the country educational freedom, and hearing his insights on the state of our education revolution will be a highlight at this year's event.»

The notion that parents understand that Common Core SBAC testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»

Policymakers who might consider regulating or constraining one of these factors — educational choice and financial responsibility for parents; freedom, competition, and the profit / loss system for schools — must consider the impact that such a policy would have on the other factors and the system in general.

On the basis of Anne Frank's life story, set against the background of the Holocaust and the Second World War, the Anne Frank House develops educational programmes and products with the aim of raising young people's awareness of the dangers of anti-Semitism, racism and discrimination and the importance of freedom, equal rights and democracy.

Since joining the firm as a trainee solicitor in 1999, Tom has developed expertise in advising businesses, charities and educational institutions on their compliance with data protection and freedom of information legislation.