Sentences with phrase «as informed citizens»

Are charter schools, online providers, and private and parochial schools all afraid they will not get access to public funds if parents recognize that they too are aimed at neural rewiring «to produce knowledgeable and competent adults able to participate as informed citizens in the democratic process»?

If a scientist speaking as an informed citizen leaves his or her research hat (and, in Dr. Hansen's case, NASA jacket) hanging on the wall while speaking as a citizen, is this possible?

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The book's exploration of the causes of this housing crisis and possible solutions (as of yet incomplete pending further research, Gates notes) will also make you a better informed citizen.

The survey was conducted after the 2016 United States presidential election and polled more than 21,000 people described by organizers as «business leaders, informed elites and general citizens.»

I rationalize my habit by telling myself that, as a responsible citizen, I should make sure I am an informed voter.

One of the scary things about reading posts from people like this is the realization that their vote counts the same as a rational, informed citizen.

The impossibility of stamping «determinate sentencing» as good or bad in any given political climate points up the fact that reform measures ultimately depend on an informed, caring and articulate minority of citizens who can influence public opinion.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

I view it as a personal responsibility to be an informed citizen of the world to recognize and understand the various religions that exist.

As this trend becomes more pronounced, the information which is necessary for citizens to make the kind of informed decisions which could reverse this trend is itself becoming increasingly scarce, so that eventually the mass media will be able to provide only circuses for the masses who embrace it gladly, and no longer can tell what they are missing.

This must be guarded against both by informed citizens who detect the signs and refuse to be duped and by government agencies such as the F.B.I. that are skilled in detecting illicit practices.

The only time I ever hear politics mentioned from the pulpit is about this time every year when church members are reminded of our duty as citizens of the U.S. to vote and to become informed on the issues and candidates before choosing how they will vote.

«Natural rights mean simply interests which we think ought to be secured,» but it is clear that legal institutions increasingly had the task not only of securing those rights but of defining them as well.30 Laws, that is to say, not only would inform citizens what to do and what not to do but would have to serve as well to assess the morality of what they did.

I began as a woman who advocates to inform citizens through grassroots events.

The building blocks of the GDS» promised «government as a platform» approach have appeared: Verify, a federated identity system that doesn't rely on ID cards or centralised identity databases, Govpay, which makes it easier to make payments to the government, and Notify, which allows government agencies to keep citizens informed of progress on services.

They have perpetrated a huge scam on NY citizens — and a lazy, ill informed media has served as accomplice to this injustice!

During that phone conversation, my wife was informed that because of that video, where we were expressing, as U.S. citizens, our religious beliefs and our Constitutional right to assemble, the Comptroller was rescinding his job offer, and that she should not report to work.

He said: «A lot of people that may not be aware of our publicity programme would get informed through this platform and would become aware of our work and their own roles as citizens.»

Gotham Gazette is an important part of the ideals of Citizens Union — as a watchdog publication committed to accountability journalism, its work helps to an informed and engaged public is crucial to the work of holding government and elected officials accountable to their promises and actions.

«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»

Knowing the names and faces of those behind local and state decisions positions you as a more informed citizen, which allows you to better advocate for your needs as well as the needs of your community.

It's a cinematic testament to what citizen journalism can be and the crucial role of the media as a means to inform the world.

While this could be seen as a burden at first, it is a vital part of educating young people to be responsible and informed citizens.

«We need therefore to equip as many of our future citizens as possible to understand how science works, its methods and its ethics; and to be able to make better informed judgements.

Poor and minority citizens are just as informed: Although many have speculated that low - income and minority citizens are less informed about or interested in school quality than more advantaged groups, we found no evidence that this is the case.

The findings, available here, also reveal that poor, minority and less educated citizens are just as informed about school quality as the public as a whole.

Thinking Critically through Digital Media enables teachers to use authentic materials and digital tools combined with motivating communicative tasks to develop students» abilities to function as critical and well informed digital citizens.

We launched the campaign because we were deeply concerned that far too many black youngsters were performing below their potential in school and not as committed to education as they need to be in order to become self - reliant adults and informed citizens.

As a science teacher, I have to consider how to prepare students to be informed citizens who are critical and independent thinkers.

Actor Richard Dreyfuss seems an unlikely champion for civic education, but as he demonstrates in this TEDx talk, he's passionate about making young people into active and informed citizens.

and «In science, students explore how both the natural physical world and science itself work so that they can participate as critical, informed, and responsible citizens in a society in which science plays a significant role.»

«When children grow up in a culture and begin their schooling with support for thinking, feeling, and acting in groups, they are more likely to participate in and practice democracy as informed and caring citizens.»

First, the relationship between actual and perceived quality is modest for citizens as a whole, although it is quite strong for parents, who have the most opportunities to observe schools and arguably have the strongest incentives to be informed.

Therefore, there is a rating mechanism that allows other community beneficiaries of education, such as employers and senior citizens, to provide input to inform student / parent choices.

Given the ever - increasing complexity and competitiveness of the 21st century world, it is essential for American students to have higher - order thinking and communications skills not only for the workplace and higher education, but to serve as well - informed citizens.

An essential 21st Century skill set for all of our nation's students includes the information and communication technology skills to allow for participation as creative and informed citizens as well as critical thinkers well versed in core subject area knowledge.

As learning institutions bestowed with the societal charge of preparing informed citizens and knowledge workers, schools must help their students and graduates master the dominant information landscape of today and tomorrow, not just yesterday.

She talks about her mission as the head of the city's Community Engagement Team and her goals to get citizens better informed and more engaged.

The Winston Service Learning Academy cultivates opportunities to engage with the community as informed and active citizens with strong social consciences and to perform a variety of important services to meet the needs of the community.

The Civic Mission of Schools (Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement [CIRCLE], 2003) described goals for civic education as preparing competent and responsible citizens who are informed and thoughtful.

We want them to be able to discern scientific fact from fiction (in a world of fake news) and make informed judgements about how we should behave as responsible citizens on a global stage.

To make informed decisions, both as individuals and as citizens, students need to develop scientific habits of mind and have knowledge about both the natural environment and how it is transformed through technology.

And as educators, citizens, and parents, we need to be sure we do our own research into all sides of the CCSS inclusions and the ongoing debate so that we can be sure to stay informed and do what is in our children's best interests according to our collective conscience.

The Department of Education prepares undergraduate teacher candidates and practicing teachers to facilitate the learning of all students, enabling both teachers and their students to act as informed, involved, principled, and productive citizens and leaders over a lifetime.

The mission of social studies is to help young people develop the ability to make informed and reasoned decisions as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society in an interdependent world.

As part of the ongoing effort to inform students, parents, teacher and Connecticut citizens about the absurd, unfair and inappropriate Common Core testing scheme, the Wait, What?

Among them, as Richard Rothstein and colleagues (p. 8) write, were to inform citizens, to enable them to know their rights, and to teach them to conduct their social relations with intelligence and heart.

Our grassroots approach is based on informing hundreds of thousands of people about the issues, and then empowering them to take direct action as citizens.

As cable TV and the Web become prime news sources, should one mourn the death of an informed citizen or celebrate new voices in new media?

Just as Paglen works with hobbyist astronomers, curator Tyler Stallings, whose show «Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration» will be seen next year at the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California, Riverside, comments that the «idea of citizen scientists, a burgeoning movement, shows a shift from scientists informing the public about what's good for them to research often done by amateurs.»