Sentences with phrase «civic duty while»

He is thoughtful and gentle, except when immediately provoked, and feels the first stirrings of civic duty while his peers are still focused exclusively on love and friendship.

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While a mere 5.6 percent of adults went to the polls, more than 40 percent of the city's public - school students took advantage of the rare opportunity to fulfill their civic duties.

While civics education policy was not a factor in this year's presidential election, United States Secretary of Education John King recently urged educators to «make preparing your students for their civic duties just as much a priority as preparing them to succeed in college and in their careers.»

While great civics education is not as systemic as it should be, there are great teachers all over the country doing innovative work to ensure students will be able to fulfill their civic duties.

Some employers continue to pay employees» full salary while they are doing their civic duty, but ask that they turn over their jury fees to the company coffers.