Sentences with phrase «because civic education»

Because civic education, like driver or consumer education, lacks an intrinsic relation to the academic curriculum, it quickly comes to be regarded by teachers and students as ancillary and irrelevant.

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The society approach: When the society is weak, when the civic education is low (or doesn't exist), when there's no promotion of real democracy, society won't participate because they're not interested or they don't know the advantages of the process.

«Coming from a school is a particularly good thing, or even a library board, if it's one that has its own budget, because, in addition to the communication and civic involvement and showing up and listening to people and so on and so forth, you also have a pretty abrupt education on what budget is like.

This is important because education doesn't happen in a vacuum — it happens to people, particularly people who have been systemically disenfranchised from civic privileges in this country.

Justice O'Connor started the web - based education project because she was concerned that students» failing grades on civics examinations were due to inadequate information and tools required for civic participation, and that civics teachers needed better materials and support.

And because civic issues — such as health care, crime, and foreign policy — are multidisciplinary in nature, understanding these issues and developing resolutions to them require multidisciplinary education.

Here his argument is unpersuasive, simply because those most critical of the current public education system — Catholics, Christian fundamentalists, inner - city African - Americans, and home schoolers — don't disavow basic moral and civic education.

Political scientists Niemi and Junn speculate that civic education might be ineffective largely because it is so whitewashed.

That is in part because Macedo actually thinks that civic education should occur in large part indirectly, via institutions other than the public schools.

The task of addressing the limitations in civics education will not be easy because the scores, in part, reflect the cynicism and lack of political efficacy among our adult population.

«The system is unconstitutional because it does not provide an opportunity for all our students, particularly our poor and minority students, to graduate high school ready to join the workforce, ready to seek higher education, and ready to be an active participant in civic life.»