Sentences with phrase «acquire civic skills»

He is co-founder and executive director of iCivics, a nonprofit organization that offers games and other interactive resources to help students acquire civic skills.

The report also provides recommendations for education policymakers to ensure every student acquires the civic skills and knowledge needed for an informed, engaged citizenry.

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Another part of civic education is the opportunity to acquire skills: of communication; for conflict resolution; organization; also skills around getting information and organizing it, managing it for the cause one is working for, and so on.

The second, acquiring «civic skills» in the classroom, is a measure of what students have learned to prepare them to be civically engaged in the future.

«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.

Even if civic skills are not acquired in schools, surely civic knowledge and civic attitudes might be.

Through civic initiatives, community engagement, speech and debate, and authentic student and family advocacy for more school choice, our scholars acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitude to change the world.

Schools are significant sites where children from diverse ethnic and social groups learn to interact, adopt civic identities, and acquire intercultural skills that are essential to good citizenship.