Sentences with phrase «social reformers in»

As we saw, the early missionaries were evangelists and social reformers in one, because they believed that both functions belonged together in the message of the gospel.

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In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

They were social reformers who challenged what they deemed to be wrong in society, theirs as well as those to which they went.

They were also social reformers who challenged what they deemed to be wrong in society, theirs as well as those to which they went.

The social reformers of 19th century America count in many ways as evangelicals, as do the revivalists who preceded them in the 18th century.

Something very important died when, social critics and reformers ceased trying to make love an important ingredient in social policy.

Waldorf Education is a world - wide independent school movement developed in Germany in 1919 by Austrian philosopher, social reformer, and visionary Rudolf Steiner.

Waldorf Education is a worldwide independent school movement developed in Europe nearly 100 years ago by Austrian philosopher, social reformer, and visionary, Rudolf Steiner.

The idea captured the minds of many progressives, including the British philosopher Bertrand Russell and the Denver judge and social reformer Ben B Lindsey, who embraced the new economic and cultural freedoms in the post-Victorian era.

While the blog was devoted exclusively to the LFTB issue, San Francisco school food reformer Dana Woldow (creator of the immensely useful school food reform how - to site, PEACHSF.org) wrote two important articles in Beyond Chron about an issue often discussed here on TLT: social stigma in the school cafeteria.

A real reformer of social policy as a minister, her memoir has been very popular in France and this edition has been supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham had a more sophisticated (and honest) understanding of how power operates in his design for apanoptical prison to control inmates.

A feminist thinker and social reformer, she had witnessed first - hand the plight of impoverished women in her native Liverpool and, following her election, made sure that their voices were heard at the highest level.

Journalist and social reformer, Masterman was elected in the 1906 Liberal landslide for West Ham North and was re-elected in January 1910.

Yet, more important, surely, are the divisions between the freethinking liberal pluralists (or democratic republicans) and the unreconstructed statists in the party, as well as those between the free - market reformers and the social democrats.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

Recreating the protests of AIDS campaigners in the 1990s, the film holds lessons for social reformers today

I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.

«Like the proverbial frog in a pot, education reformers on the political right find themselves coming to a slow boil in the cauldron of social justice activism.

We all acknowledge these challenges and numerous reformers at every level of government as well as in the non-profit sector support countless efforts to address them, from expanded health care to initiatives that link social services to schools.

Pondiscio is speaking for them when he complains «[l] ike the proverbial frog in a pot, education reformers on the political right find themselves coming to a slow boil in the cauldron of social justice activism.»

Reformers have delusions of influence because of the thousands of followers they have on Twitter and the number of hits to their web sites, failing to realize how much bigger the likes of Diane Ravitch and her Army of Angry Teachers are in social media.

Their roots lie also in the caring practices of the social reformer Jane Addams, whose 19th - and early 20th - century settlement houses were designed to help immigrants and the poor gain solid footing so they could contribute to the country's prosperity.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

Social Context Reformers have concluded that the source of success and failure lies primarily in the social and political forces that govern our Social Context Reformers have concluded that the source of success and failure lies primarily in the social and political forces that govern our social and political forces that govern our lives.

Like crawfish boils in the spring, this question has become a staple in the social lexicon of families, teachers, church mothers, and reformers in New Orleans.

The social reformer service learning project, however, is a «far less commonly endorsed vision, especially in public schools,» according to Kahne.

In fact, the most well - known purveyor of the philosophy is probably the Knowledge Is Power Program's (KIPP) charter schools, which are frequently pointed to by education reformers as the model for the future of uplifting poor children, and which distinguish themselves in part by rating those students that don't dropout on their «character,» an amorphous concept KIPP defines as «grit, zest, self - control, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity.&raquIn fact, the most well - known purveyor of the philosophy is probably the Knowledge Is Power Program's (KIPP) charter schools, which are frequently pointed to by education reformers as the model for the future of uplifting poor children, and which distinguish themselves in part by rating those students that don't dropout on their «character,» an amorphous concept KIPP defines as «grit, zest, self - control, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity.&raquin part by rating those students that don't dropout on their «character,» an amorphous concept KIPP defines as «grit, zest, self - control, optimism, gratitude, social intelligence, and curiosity.»

Most importantly, in this election the Social Equality Educators helped to popularize a program which asserted that our union is strongest when we partner with parents and community organizations in a common struggle to defend public education from corporate education reformers.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

In 1906 they formed the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education (NSPIE) to lobby on behalf of vocational education and to coordinate the efforts of supporting groups, including the American Federation of Labor, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Education Association, and social welfare reformers.

The article, written by New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Sara Mead, urges education reformers and PK advocates to join forces to support a vision for children's learning ---- physical, social, and emotional development as well as academics ---- that extends from Prekindergarten through Third Grade in a seamless progression.

With chapters that feature the sordid history of each institution on the island, Horn's book is populated by all the characters you might expect in such a story: idealistic social reformers, clueless judges, abused patients, incompetent doctors and caring but powerless priests.

In fact Faber said of Dickens: «Every critic creates their own Dickens — fearless reformer, craven reactionary, anarchic force of nature, cosy sentimentalist, fierce intellect, self - educated bore, social realist, grand tragedian, slapstick comedian, etc..

In Better for All the World, Harry Bruinius shows how reformers across the nation transformed haphazard, locally run systems of charity and welfare — mostly church handouts and town asylums — into government - run systems of welfare that aspired to make America a place where social and moral purity could reign, free from the «hereditary defectives» of the past.

I'm trying to portray the Georgist theory — based on the writings of the economist and social reformer Henry George — it was based on in the clearest way that I can.

The core philosophy of the school was rooted in the ideas of John Dewey (1859 - 1952)-- US philosopher, educator and social reformer known for his call for a shift from authoritarian classrooms and rote memorization to student - centered models that supported a democratic learning environment.

Letchworth Garden City was founded in 1903 by Ebenezer Howard, a visionary social reformer who suggested an alternative way of life in his 1898 book Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path To Real Reform, later reissued as Garden Cities of To - morrow.

In social policy, words are given their ordinary meaning and social reformers deal with concepts that engage with reality.

Reformers proposed social and behavioral science schooling for lawyers and judges who had received only adversarial training in their legal education.