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Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
The Center for Effective Discipline, now part of the Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) of Winona (MN) State University; The U.S. Alliance to End the Hitting of Children [17] People Opposed to Paddling Students (POPS), based in Texas [18] Floridians Against Corporal Punishment in Public School, based in Florida [19]
A committee of the Privy Council on national education was set up in 1839. The National Public Schools Association (NPSA), founded 1850, was a significant and prominent English pressure group campaigning for elementary education. It built on strong feelings in favour of education that was independent of the Church of England, centred on ...
The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). [1] The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights ...
Stage 1 – Cultural Preparation or "Conscientization": Education, training and consciousness raising of why there is a need for a nonviolent revolution and how to conduct a nonviolent revolution. Stage 2 – Building Organizations: As training, education and consciousness raising continues, the need to form organizations.
The political fight over school funding in Kentucky is in full swing and, as of this week, on full view. Advocates on both sides of the issue — a constitutional amendment appearing on the ballot ...
In history education, the Patriotic Education Campaign highlighted Japanese atrocities against China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. [30]: 159 In 2004, textbooks took on a more liberal and cosmopolitan ideology. Japan was still only marginally discussed with the only real mention of its influence on China coming from Japan's role in ...
The social norms approach, or social norms marketing, [1] is an environmental strategy gaining ground in health campaigns. [2] While conducting research in the mid-1980s, two researchers, H.W. Perkins and A.D. Berkowitz, [3] reported that students at a small U.S. college held exaggerated beliefs about the normal frequency and consumption habits of other students with regard to alcohol.