Sentences with phrase «values taught in public schools»

They can no longer assume that values taught in public schools are those taught at home or at church.

But most Protestants assumed that the values taught in the public schools were simply American ones.

Not exact matches

In the case of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many of our grade school children in public schools around the country, namely, values clarificatioIn the case of «Lifeboat» he calls out the warning about something that was being taught to many of our grade school children in public schools around the country, namely, values clarificatioin public schools around the country, namely, values clarification.

Since the Constitution guarantees freedom in the practice of religion, no citizen can expect the public schools to teach religious values.

This marriage of industrial money with fundamentalist values gave fundamentalism renewed power in the public debate, and efforts to oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools have returned in several states.

In light of last spring's passage of the historic Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act — which enhances student loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schoolIn light of last spring's passage of the historic Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act — which enhances student loan forgiveness programs for those who enter public service, similar to what is already done for new doctors willing to work in urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schoolin urban hospitals — the recent study of California's teaching fellowship program could cast considerable light on the value - added benefits of utilizing bonus pay to attract new talent to troubled schools.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

In a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographIn a 2006 article, Citizenship, Identity and Education: Examining the public purposes of schools in an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geographin an age of globalization, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando Reimers stressed the importance of teaching tolerance and global values, as well as developing foreign language skills and knowledge of world history, cultures, and geography.

Teaching American values in the context of reciting the pledge would honor the victims and heroes of September 11 as well as honor the reason why public schools exist in the first place.

Blacksburg, Va — Called together to comment upon what one speaker called «the current fervor to enhance the moral influence of the public school,» experts in the study of values suggested here this month that schools should resist external pressures to «narrow their focus» to the teaching of specific religious or moral doctrines.

In an essay that is sure to provoke both those who want schools to advance patriotic values and those who preach social change, Murphy argues that public schools should focus on teaching students the knowledge and skills necessary to be intellectually engaged citizens, while remaining neutral on questions of civic values.

Philadelphia — Evangelical Christians who teach in the public schools should do all they legally can to impart their religious values to students, a group of Christian educators said here at a meeting attended by President Reagan's domestic - policy adviser.

Linear Equations Game Ms. Madhavi Dhande, who teaches at Sree Chaitanya Public School in Delhi, India, submitted this lesson, which provides a game where students pair up to solve linear equations for the value of a variable.

Should values be taught in public schools, and if yes, whose?

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

For example, if she sincerely believed in «democratic values,» she would back a move to stop requiring teachers in most states to pay union dues for the right to teach in a public school, and at the same time stop forcing them to collectively bargain.

The moral values to be taught in public school were Protestant values and the political values were those of republican democracy.

A Chicago Public Schools teacher who teaches for 15 years accrues negative net benefits because the value of her contributions exceed the pension benefits she will receive in return at retirement.