Higher expectations don't guarantee change, but history suggests that the uprisings they lead to can be powerful engines of reform.
The Lib Dems will be the engine of constitutional reform, says Mr Ashdown, but Labour seems to have enough steam up on that without any stoking from him.
Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr., hero to many liberals, target of conservative ire, laughed softly when asked if it had been a thrill to be part of the liberal majority under Chief Justice Earl Warren two decades ago that transformed constitutional law and made the Supreme Court an engine of social reform.
History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
We particularly examine the coherence of the assessment with reform-oriented curriculum and consider this coherence in light of the pervasive influence of externally-mandated assessment on both assessment and instructional practice [Barnes, M., Clarke, D., & Stephens, M. (2000). Assessment: The engine of systemic curricular reform? Journal of Curriculum Studies, 32 5), 623 650].
If we are to reduce recidivism at all, organized labor must head into the states where officers lack unions and gather them together, leveraging the collective power of these individuals who – through the way they are treated and, in turn, treat prisoners – can be the engine of rehabilitation and reform.
The labor movement has been a significant engine of social and economic reform, responsible for Social Security, the minimum wage, the 8-hour-day, unemployment insurance, workplace safety laws and funding for public K-12 and higher education.
Under the Structural Adjustment Program of 1986 (with the theme of making the private sector an engine of growth), the World Bank requested reforms in Ghana's power sector to encourage greater private sector participation [13].
Hardly the language of reform.
