Sentences with phrase «social reformers of»

Today, debates about the purpose and provision of education — on the left and the right alike — are reduced to platitude - laden charges that it is up to schools to do what the social reformers of the 1960s could not accomplish through entitlements, social - welfare programs, or other Great Society initiatives.

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

Not exact matches

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.

At the beginning of the sixth century of the Hijrah, Muhammad Ibn Tumart — known as the Mahdi, that is, the Imam who is to come — appeared as a reformer and established a new state with the avowed purpose of reforming dogma and the social order.

As one might expect, however, if the reformers» arguments share the strengths that come from coherence with the modern view of the nature of moral and social agency, they also suffer from the weaknesses of these views.

From what has been said thus far, it is obvious that the liberty of individuals to pursue private good is the major moral concern of the new reformers and for this reason their ethical views can fairly be seen as a variety of the contractarian social ethic now increasingly characteristic of political society.

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.

The etymology of the term «Dalit» goes back to the 19th century when a Marathi social reformer and revolutionary Mahatma Jyotirao Phule used it to describe the «outcastes» and «untouchables» as the «oppressed and crushed victims of the Indian caste system.»

Bishop Bernard Sheil, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization and a host of other enterprises, and Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand, a pioneering liturgical reformer and social activist, also receive chapter - length attention.

The result is a picture of Jesus as a prophet and a teacher — but one who was «more than a prophet» and certainly one who taught «not as the scribes» — rather than as a social reformer, the «founder» of a religious movement, an ethical philosopher, or a fanatical apocalyptist.

On the local level, such vigilance is a kind of «civic housekeeping» — a term inspired by the social reformer Jane Addams.

It is a mistake «to represent Jesus as either a social reformer, an ethical philosopher, the founder of an institution, or an apocalyptic enthusiast.»

To be fair to Kierkegaard, he acknowledges the good intentions of the social reformers» drive toward equality, although «worldly equality, even if it were possible, is not Christian equality».20 He criticizes the caste system.21 Despite these concessions to the need for social justice Kierkegaard's doctrine remains inadequate.

Why have many social critics and reformers, including both conservatives and liberals, found fault with the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

There were some who were apprehensive that the minister might go so far as a social reformer that he would neglect the other aspects of his ministry.

If more scholars come to accept the thesis that many of the New Testament writers were arguing with Roman rulers and their collaborators, that does not necessarily mean they will conclude that Jesus was primarily a political reformer or social revolutionary.

But a theological inquiry that narrows the historical community, that excludes from the conversation such men as the early Fathers of the Church, or the medieval theologians, or the Reformers, or the sectarians of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, or the Puritans, Pietists and social gospelers, or such movements as monasticism, scholasticism, Biblicism, et cetera impoverishes itself from the beginning.

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.

It is true that women were excluded from the House of Lords until 1958, but there is an irony that the first life peeresses were a leading social scientist, the founder of the Women's Voluntary Service, a prison reformer and childcare expert.

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.

Each of the three cities have a proud humanist history, Manchester being associated with Robert Owen, the eighteenth century social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement; Alan Turing, mathematician and founder of computer science; Professor John Harris, philosopher and bio-ethicist; and Professor Brian Cox, physicist, TV presenter and former pop - star.

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).

Social reformers cite the Pygmalion Effect as key to reversing this sort of prejudice and encouraging child achievement.

Clergyman, social reformer and abolitionist, Henry Ward Beecher, once said, «I can forgive, but I can not forget, is only another way of saying I will not forgive.

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

Reformers who have been eager to embrace the social justice orthodoxy of that movement could not be expected to push back meaningfully.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformerreformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformersReformers.»

What would the social - emotional environment of middle schools look like if school leaders, teachers, and reformers listened to 11 - year - olds as they looked at the nature of their schools and classrooms?

One big idea animates virtually all of today's earnest education reformers: the conviction that great schools can spur social mobility.

The priorities and language of reformers — achievement gaps, no - excuses schools, social justice, and the «civil rights issue of our generation «-- betrays a focus on fixing schools attended by urban, low - income families of color.

And the use of race as a proxy by some reformers, to gauge the seriousness of other reformers» commitments to issues of social justice, is a relatively new phenomenon.

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.

We believe that the market based reformers are practicing a kind of crude social Darwinism — treating education as a commodity to be bought and sold, creating a hierarchy of winners (the elite who get a rich curriculum of questioning) and losers (the oppressed classes, the Black and Brown and immigrant and low - income children who need to be taught passivity and compliance).

«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.

Tyack & Cuban: «Reformers expected the kindergarten to be a cure for urban social evils as well as a model of education for young children... When public sponsorship took the place of private, an early casualty was the outreach program that sent kindergarten teachers into the homes of the pupils.»

Rick Hess fingers the reformers» social justice agenda, which is at odds with the interests of middle class suburban parents.

And when you add these social benefits to the educational advantages of customized schooling, you can see why I'm glad that Jeb Bush and other reformers had the Hank Greenberg — like chutzpah to change the way that Florida does education.

With the social engineer's calm assurance that there are clear, identifiable interventions to resolve every problem, today's education reformers insist that closing the achievement gap is a simple matter of identifying «what works» and then requiring schools to do it.

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.»

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

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.

From New York Times» columnist David Brooks and Jason DePerle, to paleo - eugenicist Charles Murray, to Robert Putnam, and even otherwise thoughtful school reformers such as Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli, there has been plenty of questioning about whether the economic mobility that has allowed America to bend the economic and social arc of history toward progress can continue.

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 takes activism to a different level because he or she focuses on eradicating the root causes of social ills.