Sentences with phrase «actively engaged citizens»

«Facing History and The Allstate Foundation are dedicated to empowering students with the tools and resources they need to be discerning consumers and producers of news, and as a result, more actively engaged citizens.»

To teach students how to be actively engaged citizens, you have to enable them to practice active engagement.

For example, ranking the opinion of an academic biologist involved in the IPCC on the attribution of climate change higher than that of a scientist from another field that has studied the issue and read all the journal articles or an actively engaged citizen scientist that is technically educated and reading all the literature.

Not exact matches

But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

It is appropriate to remind us, as Matthew Spalding did in his 2009 book, We Still Hold These Truths, that the Founders would have expected the «perpetuation of liberty» to «depend on spirited citizens... actively engaged in the democratic task of governing themselves» and «holding to the truths of 1776.»

The same citizen was, beyond dispute, actively engaged in encouraging espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, and to his dying day advocated the revolutionary replacement of the American government by a Communist regime.

Its Web site offers this rationale: «Qatar Foundation understands that the future of Qatar and the region depends on well - educated citizens, actively engaged in the international marketplace of ideas, creating and finding uses for new knowledge.

Earlier this week, NBC News leaked an unclassified white paper, drafted by the U.S. Justice Department, outlining the legal arguments in favour of the U.S. government's right to engage in targeted killing of U.S. citizens abroad when such citizens are deemed to be actively involved in plotting terrorist attacks against the United States.

However, as urban educators, we are charged with actively participating in the preparation of our young people to critically analyze the violence they are exposed to and guide them toward becoming engaged citizens.

We empower parents to actively engage in their child's education and work collaboratively to provide each student with the character and academic skills needed to succeed in rigorous high schools and colleges, and to become productive citizens in the world beyond.

New City School is a supportive community which actively engages students to build knowledge, ask meaningful questions, design creative solutions, open their minds, care for themselves and their community, and become skilled, responsive citizens in the world.

Specifically, by 2020, the Foundation intends to create a leading leadership forum focused on Kenyan Youth and children in Kenya that educates, empowers, and engages them to grow into actively responsible citizens, thus leading them to act on socio - economic issues such as combatting corruption, job creation, civic engagement, conservation, and national cohesion.

«They helped engage their colleagues and citizens in concrete ways to combat animal cruelty and were instrumental in building more actively engaged, safe and humane communities.»

In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

«You can make your dollar go a lot further if you can get citizens actively engaged in helping you promote the city's vision,» Sanders said.