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Stand for Children is an American education advocacy group. Founded in 1996 following a Children's Defense Fund rally [1] the non-profit advocates for equity in public education. Stand for Children's mission is "to ensure all students receive a high quality, relevant education, especially those whose boundless potential is overlooked and under ...
Explore a comprehensive list of groups advocating for educational improvements and reforms on Wikipedia.
A peak organisation or peak body is an Australian term for an advocacy group or trade association, an association of industries or groups with allied interests. [1] They are generally established for the purposes of developing standards and processes, or to act on behalf of all members when lobbying government or promoting the interests of the members.
A National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts banner at the occupation of University College London (UCL) on 29 November 2010 NCAFC logo used until 2018. In 2011 NCAFC organised a march through central London, supported by the National Union of Students and the University and College Union, in opposition to the government's Higher Education White Paper.
Deep ecology is an environmental philosophy that promotes the inherent worth of all living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, and argues that modern human societies should be restructured in accordance with such ideas.
Education policy consists of the principles and policy decisions that influence the field of education, as well as the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems. [1] Education governance may be shared between the local, state, and federal government at varying levels. Some analysts see education policy in terms ...
The issues surrounding the classification of advocacy groups according to their core aims has led writers such as Wyn Grant to divide groups according to the insider–outsider typology, i.e. how close a particular advocacy group is to the government of the day, and to what extent it can develop secure and positive relationships with ...
Greenpeace was created in 1971 as an organization that believed that political advocacy and legislation were ineffective or inefficient solutions and supported non-violent action. 1980 saw the creation of Earth First!, a group with an ecocentric view of the world – believing in equality between the rights of humans to flourish, the rights of ...