Sentences with phrase «american civic life»

It's a First Amendment reminder at the beginning of what's actually a lesson on the Second Amendment — the right to bear arms, and one of the most controversial topics in American civic life, let alone the classroom.

In the 1800s, Horace Mann and others successfully argued that the public schools could assimilate immigrants into the norms of American civic life.

Answer: Some of the most important truths about American civic life.

That is but seven lessons — one for each day of a single week — of the many, many truths about American civic life that we look to our teachers and our schools (although not them alone) to help teach our daughters and sons.

Ideology grown in denominational hothouses is really unhelpful, both to Christians and American civic life, and especially» from a Lutheran view» to a theology of the priesthood of all believers, believers called to exercise part of their priesthood in the voting booth.

Intensely aware of, but disturbed by, the pattern of self - segregation among young Korean American evangelicals, Ecklund is less interested in understanding the roots of their religious behavior than in analyzing its consequences for American civic life.

Any immigration reform should involve integrating this population fully into American civic life.

Thus does he pervert that populism at the heart of American civic life at its best.

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So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

Studies show that the Americans most obsessed with the lives of celebrities are particularly unlikely to participate in civic life, but that may be because they're the Americans who are particularly unlikely to have easy access to significant forms of political participation.

This absence of articulate, intelligent conservative arguments from the daily lives of millions of Americans is a civic disaster.

Richard John Neuhaus» words, «laboratories of innovation» that clear out the civic space needed to «sustain the expression of the rich pluralism of American life.»

«By virtually every measure, today's Americans are more disconnected from one another and from the institutions of civic life than at any time since statistics have been kept.

«There are more than 53 thousand Greek Americans living in Queens and they have contributed greatly to the borough's economic, civic, political and cultural life.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.

Joseph Kahne, dean of the School of Education at Mills College, in Oakland, California, and director of the school's Civic Engagement Research Group, just completed a survey for the Pew Internet and American Life Project that analyzes the link between teens» gaming behavior and their civic engagement offline.

«To fulfill the promise of digital citizenship, Americans must acquire multimedia communication skills and know how to use these skills to engage in the civic life of their communities,» she writes.

Americans receive more schooling today than they did 50 years ago, but they are also less likely to vote or otherwise participate in politics or civic life.

«I could never go back to the old model,» says Ms. Mattivi, whose eighth - grade English students discuss articles about the environment, civic life, and American history after using online literacy programs that provide similar material at different reading levels.

Learn about a powerful framework for engaging students in a study of American history, literature, or civic life

School reform is just as much about the three Cs: curriculum (what knowledge and skills students actually learn); counseling (how we prepare young people, professionally and socially, for adult life); and civics (whether we teach students how to participate in American democracy).

The award will be presented at Character.org's National Forum on Character Education, Oct. 17 in Atlanta, GA. «The life of John Lewis exemplifies the civic virtues essential for sustaining and expanding the American belief in «liberty and justice for all,»» said Charles Haynes, Character.org's board chair.

Working with visual emblems of civic engagement, Hank Willis Thomas will present 13,471 (2016) and 15,589 (2018), embroidered fabric works each recalling the American flag but with stars that number lives lost by gun violence in recent years.

Working with visual emblems of civic engagement, Hank Willis Thomas presents 15,093 and 15,580 (both 2018), embroidered fabric works each recalling the American flag but with stars that number lives lost by gun violence in recent years.

The Pew Internet & American Life Project website produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political lLife Project website produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political llife, education, health care, and civic and political lifelife.

It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.