Looking ahead both in Europe and at home, General Assembly has its eyes set on new territories for its educational ethos: partnerships with colleges and universities are one, if they manage to break through the old-school resistance to change that pervades that world.
In response to the German closure and censorship of Polish schools, resistance among teachers led almost immediately to the creation of large-scale underground educational activities.
While desegregation efforts were met with outward opposition, including violence and school closures, "resistance also took the form of things like school choice and the diversion of public funds for private white academies," Ifill said.
The law school's resistance has been more vexing.
A disciple of the community organizer Saul Alinsky, he began working with South Bronx Churches, an ecumenical community organizing group, to build housing for the poor and improve local public schools despite resistance from some church leaders, who feared that better public schools would be a threat to the local Catholic schools.
In 1959 Prince Edward County in Virginia closes its public schools in resistance to federal desegregation.
Sometimes, when its footing with the public has been shaky, the court has weathered sharp opposition by tolerating concerted resistance (school desegregation) or low-grade noncompliance (the ban on school prayer).
Via his school for armed resistance, Wintringham hoped to broaden the remit and sharpen the edge of the new corps.
She said that as captain she was expected to "[sell] the school" and encountered resistance from staff when she sought to be honest about what she saw as its shortcomings.
No, Milburn's argument is being used by the adherents of the "disobey lawful orders" school to support resistance to the ending of Don't Ask/Don't Tell.
Diarrhea is both preventable and treatable, yet families in developing countries continue to pay the price of this disease in lost lives, missed school days, reduced resistance to infections, impaired growth, malnutrition and poverty.
