Sentences with phrase «civic empowerment gap»
Throughout her career, Levinson has authored a number of books including, in 2012, No Citizen Left Behind, which discusses how schools can help tackle the civic empowerment gap.
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Her latest book, No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, 2012), argues that the United States suffers from a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind.
She shows how schools can help address the civic empowerment gap by teaching collective action, openly discussing the racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoking students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices through action civics.
«Therefore, the civic empowerment gap harms all Americans because it weakens the quality and integrity of our democracy.»
Drawing on her experiences as a political theorist, an urban middle school teacher, and an education scholar, Levinson investigates the widening civic empowerment gap and offers ideas on how to close it.
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She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.