Sentences with phrase «schools as institutions»

He contends that law schools as institutions are places of privilege and people don't realize how offensive their remarks can be.

Writing in the Sept. 15 issue of Education Week, school expert Alfie Kohn describes today's schools as institutions in which students «count off the hours remaining until dismissal, the days until the weekend, the weeks until vacation.»

Smith, who used to be president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools and is now a senior advisor to the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, provides and fair and accurate description of our book's thesis: that we should return to Albert Shanker's original vision of charter schools as institutions that provide flexibility to experiment with new approaches, that enhance the role of teachers in running schools, and that integrate students of different racial and economic backgrounds.

By creating the common - core content standards behind closed doors, the authors increased the alienation of the public from schools as institutions worthy of loyalty.

It demonstrates that Karthik is not only a first - rate economist, but also that he understands teaching and learning, and schools as institutions,» said Professor Richard Murnane.

It conceives schooling as an institution more like a church, a profession, or a branch of the military, where one can choose to join or leave, but the choices reflect deeper convictions rather than mere consumer preferences.

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

The second flaw is one that's even more easily disprovable with data: her reasoning that we must believe in public schools as an institution because they are well attended.

In collaboration with David Burrows, Smith's 2001 Staff Development (Le École de Bob Smith et David Burrows)» looks to the art school as the institution that produces language and demands belief in this dominant canon.

Not exact matches

According to Jerome Katz, the Coleman Professor in Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business, the biggest challenge with incorporating as a benefit corporation is in developing credit with banks and financial institutions.

According to research from institutions as serious as Wharton, MIT, and London Business School, every chuckle or guffaw brings with it a host of business benefits.

The resulting ranking — which puts HEC Montreal in the top spot — offers 10 schools worth considering if you're looking to do an MBA in as short a time as possible at a relatively low cost, while still attending an institution with a reputation that will make your degree stand out.

Only three institutions (Cincinnati, Texas and the University of Miami) received As for being above average when compared to peer institutions and at least one school, Oklahoma State, didn't have any women head coaches for women's teams.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Also in the second year, and also similar to programs in top U.S. schools, CEIBS offers for the fall term an international exchange program with about 30 partner schools, including Wharton, the U.C. Berkeley Haas School, UCLA's Anderson School, Duke's Fuqua, Michigan's Ross, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler, Indiana's Kelley, and Dartmouth's Tuck, along with European institutions such as London Business School, Spain's ESADE and IESE, France's HEC and INSEAD, plus other schools including the Indian School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Canada's Queen's, Rotman, Sauder, and Schulich schools.

As local educational institutions go, the WA School of Mines has a higher - than - average representation of 40under40 First Amongst Equals winners.

Such ideas call to question entrepreneurial education as an institution and put forth the specter of business schools taking DNA cheek swabs along with application packets.

To be eligible for an in - school deferment, you must be enrolled at least half time (as determined by your institution).

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As part of its commitment to the community and the industry, Talison Lithium offers tours of the Greenbushes Lithium Operations for schools, tertiary institutions, special interest groups and seniors in Western Australia.

As an AACSB accredited institution, Haskayne School of Business participates in an ongoing process of annual reporting and five - year reviews of our continuous improvement.

Mr Martin is an NDP institution in northeast Edmonton, having been elected as an MLA from 1982 to 1993, a public school board trustee from 2001 to 2004, and once again as an MLA from 2004 to 2008.

You can invest in any state's 529 plan and use the money to pay for school in the United States or abroad as long as the school is considered an eligible education institution.

Well before that, we will see increasing legislation, taxation, and state licensing directed, in the name of gay rights, against church halls and schools and charities: all the Catholic institutions that can be identified as offering some kind of public access and accommodation.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

The American Association of Christian Schools, with more than 1,000 member institutions, makes as a condition of affiliation acceptance of the statement, «We believe in creation, not evolution.»

But it had very little effect on the School of Theology at Claremont as an institution, and our graduates have had very little effect on the church as an institution.

He continued: «Despite the claims of some, that religious freedom will be protected, all proposed legislation to date has been totally inadequate to safeguard people who work for church - run institutions such as schools, hospitals and universities.

Catholic schools matter to urban neighborhoods not only as educational institutions — although, to be sure, they matter a great deal educationally — but also as community institutions.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

But with huge plant investments and the nightmare of retrenchment facing educational institutions, the temptation is to see students not as ends for which schools exist, but as means to the economic survival of the institutions themselves.

Elites with degrees from the Kennedy School of Government or Yale Law School and other institutions that produce the people who design and run government programs, nonprofits, and labor unions as well as corporations.

Power as it is being discussed here is played out in «politics» — in personal relationships, in institutions like government, family, schools, and religious communities, in international arenas that are as often economic as political.

Perhaps the mass media are the real public schools — the institutions in which the public is not only taught but brought into being as a public.

After the rise of Hitler, Buber was appointed as director of the Central Office for Jewish Adult Education in Germany, where «he was responsible for the training of teachers for the new schools which had to be established as a result of the exclusion of Jewish students from all German educational institutions.»

The school of Antioch, of which Theodore was the most outstanding and influential theologian, was not so much a recognized institution with regularly appointed teachers but as a succession of brilliant scholars and thinkers in and around Antioch.

There could be such things as saved social institutions — state, economic systems, and schools.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

In fact, they were the only ones I could think of who were doing strictly church work, as opposed to work with Christian institutions — schools and hospitals — in the whole of the Punjab.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

Instead, as we all are aware, the institutions of the nation - state (prominently the family, the schools, the churches, the mass media) commonly teach ethnocentrism and prejudice against people who are racially or Ideologically either traditionally or conveniently used as scape goats.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

This focus on education also transformed the church itself, through the agency of the Sunday School — an institution that owed much of its nineteenth - century dominance and modern shape to such Methodist leaders as John Heyl Vincent, founder of Chautauqua.

These vignettes form a fascinating somewhat uplifting, somewhat disturbing picture of religion in independent schools across the country, and of the way schools understand themselves as religious (or non-religious) institutions in relation to a rapidly changing society.

The «Islam Hadhari» initiative is being strongly opposed by the most conservative Islamic parties, which regard it as the institution of a new school of law and a departure from Islam.

Thus implicitly and explicitly the denominations in their concern for the education of ministers, and the schools entrusted with the task, make it evident that they think of themselves increasingly as branches or members of a single community, as orders and institutions with special duties or assignments to be carried out in partnership with other branches of one society.

Also see Stanley Hauerwas, «The Family as a School for Character,» Religious Education 80 (Spring 1985): 272 - 85, for a similar analysis of the way this reasoning about the family in character formation «can too easily turn the family into an idolatrous institution.»

• Educational institutions must provide auxiliary aids, such as readers in school libraries or interpreters for the deaf.

The collaboration of formal and informal institutions such as Sunday schools, Sabbath observance and family devotions — once the mainstay of American religion — has disappeared.