Sentences with phrase «civic lesson»

What a good civic lesson these young people just learned.

The recent row over Bill Maher and Ben Affleck's heated discussion of Islam on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher strikes me as an opportunity for a civic lesson — one rooted not in debating who is right or wrong, or who is bigoted or not, but one, that, in true Facing History and Ourselves fashion, is rooted in history.

He needs a civic lesson.

A civics lesson is in order here, I think.

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Did you not make the point that «members of the Hoffman Estates Park District Board were taught a valuable but bitter civics lesson....

This report appears to be a civics lesson explaining the legislative process, so I suspect that the subject matter itself is not sensitive.

As for the other two, if they are motivated by fear and division, they need to join Diaz Jr. in that civics lesson.

He really needs to leave his bible in church and take a civics lesson.

It aimed for civics lesson accuracy in trying to explain the way politics worked, especially the tensions involved in trying to balance conflicting loyalties.

It was part Question Time, part civics lesson, part high - school talent show all delivered in the style of a pentecostal sermon - and it worked magnificently.

Mr. Molo also offered a civics lesson to the jury, showing a picture of the State Capitol and explaining how one end, the Assembly, is controlled by Democrats and the other, the Senate, by Republicans.

Or was he just giving his audience a civics lesson?

For me, this civics lesson at the mailbox joined together privacy and civil liberties.

In depicting the fight to push the bill through the House, Spielberg and Kushner, using Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals as a primary source, have crafted a particularly elegant and mostly sharp civics lesson.

For all the value of his three most recent period pictures, they feel less vital as direct responses to the world around us than as filmed civics lessons, like popcorn Rossellini in his historical films era.

She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.

Matthew McConaughey wants to free the slaves or die tryin» in this civics lesson of a Civil War drama

Regardless of your political bent, watching Obama's team work is a wonderful civics lesson.

This is a three - hour civics lesson.

One of the year's best American films explores the accomplishments of Dr. King without wrapping it in a grade - school civics lesson

The civics lessons of the past, for example, are often criticized for emphasizing rote learning and underrepresenting people of color.

As the rituals of election - season civics lessons were disrupted by the ugly rhetoric of the campaign, teachers struggled to accommodate political conversation and free speech, while rejecting divisive language and supporting their students.

It was a superb civics lesson, and the vast majority of the students showed, in a variety of observable ways, that they had learned powerfully from it.

In this particular issue, Rogers Smith and Stephen Gilles review Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy by Stephen Macedo in «Civics Lesson.»

Does your schools involvement with the First Amendment consist of one or two civics lessons a year?

Both in civics lessons and in everyday interactions, K — 12 schools «don't treat free speech as the preeminent protected right that it is,» said legal scholar Catherine J. Ross, who explores this issue in a new book, Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students» First Amendment Rights.

Learning and Living the First Amendment Does your schools involvement with the First Amendment consist of one or two civics lessons a year?

Like a good science experiment or civics lesson, all this learning occurred through doing, not lecture.

Now Fairview teachers weave civics lessons into their K - 5 standards, creating engaging and relevant lessons for their students.

In addition, as schools from all over the country visit the nation's capital, it provides a math activity that can be easily added to the many history, art, and civics lessons elicited by such a field trip.

Learning and Living the First Amendment Does your school's involvement with the First Amendment consist of one or two civics lessons a year?

The Civics lesson plans that were created specifically for this site cover the impact that Jamestown colony had on American democracy as well as encourage students to become actively engaged in the democratic principles of citizenship.

Conservatives tend to caricature liberal civics lessons as the toleration of the intolerable, while liberals often criticize conservative civics lessons as a knee - jerk brand of patriotism.

Facing History's recent book, Washington's Rebuke to Bigotry, on his 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, looks at the United States» first president's views on religious freedom, and is a powerful resource for exploring these essential civic lessons within U.S. history.

Who are the children receiving scripted curricula while losing recess, physical education, music and civics lessons?

• For parents: Take this opportunity to work collectively with other parents and your school leaders on the larger civic lessons around this growing youth movement.

The website, for example, provides teachers with student tasks for applying civics in real - world situations and with civics lesson plans on American rights and responsibilities; giving back to the community; and examining historical contexts of justice and inequality.

It's time to give legislators the civics lesson they apparently never received.

I know for me the Humane Society has had a great emotional impact on several levels, first as a great civics lesson.

It is either a civics lesson, or instruction on the impossibility of civics.

Do civic lessons for adults start here?»

Talk about a civics lesson: A high school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well founded.

The officials who filed this lawsuit are in need of a civics lesson, says an editorial in the Austin American - Statesman:

The court is exploring the idea of partnering with the University of Maryland journalism school to help provide a civics lesson to the greater public.

The confirmation hearings for Judge Roberts have been discussed by many as a «national civics lesson.»

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The only lessons in socialism are related to history units and arguments on civics.

Teachers and parents can reinforce the lessons of democracy by their own example of civic responsibility.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in civics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

Just three days earlier, the 6» 8 1/2», 215 - pound Max had gotten another lesson in civics — if not civility — while playing center for George Washington High in a Public League quarterfinal playoff basketball game between his school and Murrell Dobbins Technical High.