Sentences with phrase «social reformers made»

After witnessing cruelty and neglect, social reformers made efforts to garner rights on children's behalf.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Cooper, a self - taught industrialist, inventor and social reformer, founded the college with the mission of making higher education available to all; it was among the first to admit blacks, women, students of any religion and those who could not pay, making it need - blind long before the term existed.