Sentences with phrase «become informed citizens»

«Our partnership with Facing History provides young people with the resources to become informed citizens and leaders creating positive change in their communities.»

High - quality literacy instruction helps children access information that interests them, communicate with the wider world, become informed citizens, and reach their full potential.

Opening in 2017, the school's focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) will empower students with the knowledge and skills to become informed citizens in an increasingly scientific and technological society.

Not exact matches

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

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.

Thus they may call to check on elderly people living alone, become part of a crisis team to refer people to professionals who can help them, or take part in a network that informs citizens of pending legislation.

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.

There is a real possibility that the moral and religious motivations of some citizens will become not only actionable at public law, through constitutional suits challenging legislation informed by such motives, but also actionable at private law.

By talking with your child about current events and stories they see in the news or hear about at school, you can help your child to feel more confident in their understanding of the world and to become a better and more informed global citizen.

Our citizens need to become informed about the significant health effects of food on our bodies and how it connects to our longevity.

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.»

How is that becoming a more informed citizen?

More and more, Edward becomes informed on the questionable and intrusive tracking, legal manipulation, and data collection being secretly conducted by the U.S. government on not only foreign threats, but its own citizens without formal warrants, court orders, or proper search - and - seizure procedures.

It's their hope that if they arm students with hands - on learning opportunities, those students will become more active, informed citizens — prepared to vote, volunteer, and engage in civic life.

«Freedoms Foundation's mission is to help students become informed and active citizens.

Back for its fourth year, our popular Oxfam Water Week is designed to help young people become active and engaged global citizens by taking informed, responsible and meaningful action.

They become informed and active citizens through the help of their teachers.

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.

The HPE learning area, teachers and schools are aware of the responsibility to support students through education to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

The Chinese immigrant girl who photographed her mother at a sewing machine, then translated her stories from the factory floor, will become a stronger and more informed citizen because of that — and perhaps an artist or writer, too.

That all young people become civically informed and engaged global citizens by participating in service - learning during their formative years.

Educators have a responsibility to discuss these current events so that their students can become informed and active citizens.

With your financial support and commitment, AYPF will continue to educate and inform policymakers about strategies that work to help young people, particularly vulnerable youth, succeed in the modern workplace, become lifelong learners, and be engaged citizens.

An emerging body of evidence suggests that integrating STEMM fields with the humanities and arts in higher education is associated with positive learning outcomes that may help students enter the workforce, live enriched lives, and become active and informed citizens, says a new Academies report.

Online, they are also invited to reflect on how they fit into the wider world and our unfolding human story — one important facet of becoming more informed, thoughtful, and engaged «global citizens.»

Merging educational programs like Facing History's with transitional justice efforts can be a powerful approach with the potential to support youth to become active global citizens who make positive, informed decisions.

They should learn 21st century skills, STEAM and Creativity, thus becoming well informed, successful global citizens.

«Every day, Facing History is helping students become informed, compassionate, upstanding global citizens,» said Mrs. Obama in a video address to Facing History and Ourselves in Chicago on April 12.

We envision an educational system that equips all students with the intellectual, emotional, and social habits and skills to become powerful and informed citizens who contribute actively toward a democratic and equitable society.

Our tools have become a valuable resource for educators and community leaders who are committed to empowering students to become informed, engaged, and active citizens in our democracy.

Schools and classrooms are spaces where citizens are developed, where knowledge of one's local and national history and its legacies are critical foundations for developing an ethical, civic identity and becoming an informed civic actor.

All young Australians become successful learners; confident and creative individuals; and active and informed citizens (Goal 2).

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?

He became a United States citizen in 1943 and throughout the 1940s and 1950s, his work was informed by his travels abroad: to China with the US Army; Italy on his second Guggenheim fellowship; and Paris and Madrid, where he moved his family for a brief period during the late fifties.

CLEAN builds on Climate Literacy Network's broad collection of educational resources and fosters a scientific - education community that helps facilitate students, teachers, and citizens becoming climate literate and informed about «the climate's influence on you and society and your influence on climate.»

Now their ridiculously manipulated science has been accepted as fact and become a cornerstone issue for CNN, CBS, NBC, the Democratic Political Party, the Governor of California, schoolteachers and, in many cases, well informed but very gullible environmental conscientious citizens.

This was because they were controlled by people ensuring what interested them or what ensured their job, rather than what the student needed to become an effective informed citizen.

Fortunately, Canada isn't North Korea, so citizens were eventually informed of this very real manifestation of global warming occurring right under their noses — it became headline news when the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported on the shattered record instead.

In a democratic state, academic libraries, which possess some of the greatest resources in the land, are required to be open to the public so people may educate themselves to become informed and active citizens.

It's fine that the telecom companies are going to prioritize the sites that pay for speed, even though those sites showcase the Kardashians and not content that helps me become a better, more informed citizen.

The Positive Living Skills Primary School Wellbeing Program is focused on developing a set of knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions to help students become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

The Australian Curriculum is designed to help all young Australians to become successful learners, confident and creative individuals, and active and informed citizens.

[18] Goal 2 of the Declaration commits to ensuring all young Australians become active and informed citizens who act with moral and ethical integrity, appreciate diversity, are committed to national values of democracy, equity and justice, participate in Australia's civic life and are responsible global and local citizens.