Sentences with phrase «become productive citizens on»

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He is a founder of the Boys and Girls Club of Eden and currently serves as a board member, focused on inspiring and enabling children from Eden and surrounding communities to become productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

If we consider the skills of focusing on ourselves, tuning in to others, and understanding the larger world as a framework for our thinking, imagine how the conversation about screen time could shift away from the amount of time spent with devices and toward how students might use them to become more productive citizens in a networked and global society.

The Association has called on Congress to support the efforts of states and local education agencies to increase student engagement and lower dropout rates using research - based approaches that ensure high school graduates become productive citizens.

a nation of remarkably productive, often well - paid workers who are becoming increasingly reluctant to pause from their labors and refresh their souls — a nation whose cash - drenched corporate employers typically don't pay for much time off (less than two weeks annually, on average), a nation whose globe - gripping federal government is the only one in the whole industrialized world not to legally require generous periods of paid kick - back - and - hang time — is a nation that's socially screwed up, particularly in comparison with European countries like France, which orders its citizens outside to play for the entire month of August and a few other weeks spread through the year.

In addition, the impaired ability of these children to become productive young adults increases tax burdens on citizens, and worsens emerging workforce deficits.