Sentences with phrase «civic education points»

A new report on the status of civic education points to a startling lack of understanding, among adults and youth alike, about the nuts and bolts of government.

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Again and again, civic leaders have pointed to this fact when warning that a crisis in American education may imperil continued growth in economic productivity.

It seems that almost every week there's some sort of news article or study pointing out how much Americans don't know, soon followed by a cry for more civics education in schools.

Even though there are many ways to define character education, for the moment let's assume that Wikipedia provides a reasonable starting point: ``... an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children in a manner that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant or socially acceptable beings.»