Sentences with phrase «civic life requires»

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It will require that we turn more of our attention homeward, away from raging national controversies and toward the everyday lives of our living moral communities — toward family, school, and congregation; toward civic priorities and local commitments; toward neighbors in need and friends in crisis.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

Contractors, vendors, public workers, office seekers: «Their daily First Read newsletter, with the daily schedule (for government events in New York), is basically required reading for anyone with a stake in civic life,» David Galarza, communications specialist at the Civil Service Employees Association, a New York public - sector labor union, told me.

Such challenges will require students to engage in the civic and developmental lives of their communities, faculty to continue to expand the domains of intellectual knowledge, and administrative vision and planning in partnership with faculty to lead the university into tomorrow.

Preparing students to be lifelong learners capable of partaking knowledgeably in both civic life and a rapidly changing workforce requires not just focusing on technology, personalization, or even coding, but the broader content and foundation at the heart of these experiences.

«If the report's assertion is correct — that only 5 percent of jobs require the mathematics embodied in the calculus pathway — then our education system should focus more on the mathematics that most young people will actually use in their civic and work life, e.g. statistics, data, probability.»»