Sentences with phrase «own educational freedom»

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents.

Our commitment is to provide structure, yet educational freedom, so all may find their own truth, while incorporating a «living yoga» approach to their lives.

Perhaps Smarick only means that education reformers should pay attention to the details of public policy in order to expand educational freedom.

Although greater educational freedom for Missouri families would be reason enough for many to adopt a program, some, including taxpayers and legislators, want to know how an ESA program would affect the state's bottom line — a legitimate concern.

This level of educational freedom can encourage children to seek similar online content and begin creating solutions to the discussed issues.

The children who supposedly will get left behind will also benefit from educational freedom for all.

This is a history that my own books have traced for dozens of countries, from the perspective of educational freedom and the rights of conscience of parents and their children.

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.

Greater educational freedom aligns the interests of teachers and students to the benefit of all.

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The increased educational freedom could benefit teachers as well as students.

The other view superficially embraces the arts and humanities but has little appreciation for educational freedom and therefore fails to really understand the arts and humanities.

In the wake of Congressional action, state lawmakers should take up the baton to expand educational freedom by making choice programs like education scholarship accounts available to more families.

10 Mandatory national testing would be detrimental to parental rights and educational freedom.

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.

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

Today, millions of low - income families of color are exercising choice and it's no surprise that they overwhelmingly value their educational freedom.

Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers launched attacks against those who seek educational freedom for their children, labeling them the «polite cousins of segregation.»

The remaining four seats are up for grabs this November, and the loss of even one of these seats to opponents of educational freedom would result in a majority opposed to full - spectrum parental choice.

«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 Friedman Foundation team continues to be committed to protecting the educational freedom of all children, and this case has the potential to unlock learning opportunities not just in Douglas County, Colorado, but also in dozens more states across the country.

He did, though, fully embrace his own educational freedom: When asked whether the DC public schools were good enough for his kids, he said no.

But educational freedom isn't just — or even mainly — about equality.

But, as is the American way, school choice supporters have turned adversity into an opportunity to expand educational freedom in a way that will save taxpayers money and in a manner that is entirely constitutional.

Gifted children have the freedom to delve deeper into subjects they are passionate about or master subjects they excel in at an accelerated rate — traditional school with its time constraints and curriculum limitations can't provide this needed educational freedom gifted children need.»

The 2005 paper traces the progressive movement for educational freedom from Reconstruction, to the civil rights movement, to the «free schools» and «community control» movements of the 1960s and «70s.

Despite their limitations, both programs greatly expand educational freedom, and will serve as much - needed pressure - release valves for the state's overcrowding challenge.

Readers who desire a more comprehensive introduction to the idea of educational freedom may find one here: «The Public School Monopoly: America's Berlin Wall.»

What America needs is more educational freedom.

By contrast, educational freedom fosters social harmony.

Needless to say, many education establishmentarians are not happy with this advance of educational freedom.

«Each year during National School Choice Week, I'm grateful that educational freedom is enthusiastically championed and celebrated across the country.

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.

The primary political and educational objective for confronting young Germans with their country's darkest past and their ancestors» guilt is, above all, to make them understand the consequences of Hitler's dictatorship, the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and to make them appreciate the values and inst.itutions that protect freedom and democracy.

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.

The pope insists, as part of his demand for truth, that the Church «has a public role over and above her charitable and educational activities: all the energy she brings to the advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity is manifested when she is able to operate in a climate of freedom.

The educational system should be organized in a way that offers genuine freedom and treats every religious tradition fairly, neither discriminating against nor benefiting any unequally.

While the Muslims lost in the economic, political, and educational spheres, the Hindus made corresponding gains all around due to their realistic acceptance of the new order and their freedom from a false sense of pride.

I compare my spiritual journey to the educational path of a student fortunate enough to have been schooled in public schools, then private schools, then to have been home schooled and finally to have discovered the serendipitous opportunities and freedom of unschooling.

The laws of nature are valid but they» are not deterministic, they allow for freedom, and so for conflicts and frustrations that are not specifically providential (divine punishments, educational devices, or...) but are simply examples of creatures partly making themselves and one another, under the general guidance which insures that symbiosis and mutual helpfulness are as real as self - assertion and predation.

Humanists UK show that the Freedom of Information website Theyworkforyou.com reveals that Damian Hinds received: «an educational allowance of # 5,116.25 and accommodation provided for an intern in my parliamentary office for 10 months» in October 2014.

But the new, freedom - centered educational theory misunderstands the meaning of freedom, which is indispensable but not in itself sufficient for true education.

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.

The special educational significance of the latter lies in the freedom they afford for self - direction, experimentation, and broadening of personal perspective and competence.

Sir Fred Clarke states in Freedom in the Educative Society that while the popular educational theory in England is that of «development,» the popular practice is that of an imposed code.

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.

We then find that any society that denies the individual the possibility of spiritual growth and freedom estranges one from oneself, regardless of its material conditions and educational maturity.

Government projects are intermediate between industrial and educational jobs in both salary and freedom.

A Christian theology of freedom can regard any determination or limitation of the sphere of freedom only either as an inevitable consequence of the exercise of freedom by others, or as a provisional educational measure for the protection of a still maturing freedom.