Sentences with phrase «schools liberals thought»

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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).

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

Even Martin King did not ask that question so as to expose the flawed white liberal thinking about God that he had encountered in graduate school.

A liberal education, if added to a STEM or business degree in graduate school, could greatly benefit our country, which has seen very little good thinking in government, politics, and business as of late.

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Meanwhile the spineless liberals that infect our schools think its beyond their PC remit to report child abuse.

If the Republicans champion sensible solutions on schools, taxes and electoral reform, they'll be well on their way to becoming a real alternative to the liberal group - think that often stops progressive New York from actually making progress.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Nevertheless, there seem to be a school of thought that whilst the state's nature is democratic, it can not be considered a liberal democracy.

Supporters of the campaign include the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Chief among our core elements are: our college - prep curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences that fosters in students the desire and capacity to learn independently, think critically, and communicate proficiently; our supportive school culture in which students are given tools to develop character, gain confidence in their ability to learn, take responsibility for their own learning, and both support and feel supported by the entire community; and a strong co-curricular program in athletics, performing arts, and a host of after - school clubs that pique and develop students» interests.

But research shows many remain conflicted about their value: in a 2014 survey by Richard Patterson and Robert Patterson of 90 professors at a liberal - arts school, 57 percent agreed that laptops enhanced learning, but 42 percent thought laptops decreased participation.

As the Obama administration calls on schools to stop obsessing over standardized tests, Brooklyn Ascend High is rolling out a liberal arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking over exam prep.

One, he thinks that social justice exists outside the jurisdiction of school curricula, and second that those who would teach social justice approach it only from a liberal perspective.

«When the Conservatives published their invitation to join the Government of Britain, the Liberal Democrats said the Conservatives» approach to school reform «is completely muddled» and branded plans to reform the curriculum as «confused, ill thought out and naive».

Equity concerns surface in other ways, with few publicly supported, private school choice programs employing the sliding scales for family income and scholarship value that liberal voucher supporters in the «60s and «70s thought crucial.

-- Separately, other filings show that the Turkish government paid a liberal think tank in Ohio that opposed the Gülen - linked charter schools in that state, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Conservative funders like the Walton Foundation also give generously to charter schools and liberal think tanks such as the Center for American Progress.

In a much - heralded democratic concept like parents choosing the schools they want their child to attend, you wouldn't think folks — especially liberal white folks — would protest it so vehemently.

Sharpe realizes that many «white» liberals are susceptible to wishful thinking: the white liberals see quite clearly that American public schooling, steeped in class and racial segregation, is a moral disgrace.

The school offered, at least initially, a fairly broad - based liberal arts program, with art itself, modernist in mood, at the center, available to all, not necessarily as a professional pursuit but as a means of unlocking creative thinking in students in every field.

I finally decided I was an artist after trying a number of different straight jobs: I went to liberal arts school, thinking of becoming an attorney.

Liberal group think is already pervasive in our school systems, and here warmers see a further need to suppress the development and exercise of independent thought.