Sentences with phrase «politics around education»

But the divisive politics around education policy had made it extremely difficult to do.

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Sports, education, entertainment, politics — all have become subservient to the demands of television, rather than the other way around.

«There was at least the possibility of substantive issues being raised last year,» David Bloomfield, a professor of education at CUNY's Graduate Center and Brooklyn College, said of the shifting politics around mayoral control.

Divisiveness doesn't come about in politics just around election season — year round, there are topics that produce deeply divided opinions around the environment, immigration, health care, finance, women's rights, education, and many other issues.

We're looking for writers here at ShakingNews to cover and explain New York politics, especially around topics like healthcare, housing and real estate, transportation, education and tech policy.

Idiocracy is a sometimes dead - on satire built around writer - director Mike Judge's perceived dumbing down of America due to current trends in education, entertainment, and politics.

While it would have been nice to see Condon take a more active stance against the ignorance that drove much of the politics and education of the times, all in all, Kinsey is a well - crafted film that offers a respectful look at a pioneer who changed the lives and attitudes of millions around the world.

Adding more years to the present public - education mandate would simply give ineffectual school systems additional time to fumble around while entangling pre-K education more tightly in the web of school politics, federalism disputes, bureaucratic rigidities, and adult interest groups.

It's a decision deeply rooted in the politics of school choice in Indiana and revolves around the administration of Democratic Mayor Bart Peterson, the first mayor given the authority to oversee the city's charter schools, says Claire Smrekar, a professor of education and public policy at Vanderbilt University.

She's also an author, successful businesswoman, and engaging motivational speaker whose views on education, politics, and success are heavily sought after throughout the United States and around the world.

The consensus around this «education for economic growth» paradigm, to use language popularized by state Gov. Jim Hunt, was particularly sustained in North Carolina, though like - minded efforts in other southern states shaped national education politics in the 1980s and 1990s.

When I look at school districts around the country, I see public education becoming more about politics and less about students and families.

This is a timely moment for everyone who works in or around the health sector — whether in patient care, in policy or politics, in governance, education, workforce, public health or other areas — to reflect upon what they are doing to help ensure a health system that is more culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whether as patients or employees.