Sentences with phrase «civics class at»

Two weeks ago, Monica Eng reported that a high school civics class at Roosevelt High School in Chicago was protesting the district's sub par school food by launching a website, «The School Lunch Project: Culinary Denial, «as well... [Continue reading]

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When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Paradoxically, nationalism — be it civic, ethnic, or a combination of these two — can be extremely unifying across gender, class, or even political lines, while at the same time identifying the fault line along the idea of national unity.

King said serving as education commissioner gave him a close - up look at the political process, «which is different from maybe how I taught it in my high school civics class.»

Aside from lowering the voting age by a year, the bill would also require all pupils in the ninth grade or higher to receive at least eight full class periods of civics education and mandate that every New York high school provide each student with a voter registration form the year they turn 17.

Bronx State Sen. Gustavo Rivera goes back to his roots in academia to teach a series of civics classes that start tonight at 6 p.m. at the Bronx Library Center.

At HEAF, we've had students expand their critical thinking skills by rewriting the endings to well - known stories; publishing their writing on a student blog; conducting research as they learned to collect, analyze and report on data; engaging in civics and current events by running their own political campaigns during election time; and planning and producing their own films on class topics.

, civics, and free enterprise classes at Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had that opportunity.

I teach a civics and citizenship class to high school seniors at Democracy Prep in Harlem, New York.

Could a deeply vetted, widely used, quarter - credit civics class look mostly at our cities?

The class that I taught was a seminar in civics and citizenship for graduating seniors, in which we would wrestle with constitutional issues at work in students» lives, from campus speech codes to «broken windows» policing.

Likewise, history class has a renewed relevance for Joe Leon's seniors at Fowler High School, as they put their civics knowledge to work conducting weekly study sessions for adult Punjabi immigrants studying for their American citizenship tests.

At the same time, they help struggling readers find and identify information they are expected to know in content area classes, such as social studies, history, civics and science.

Civics contested the Up to 1300cc class in the Bathurst 1000 touring car race at Bathurst in Australia each year from 1973 to 1976, with a best placing of second in class in both 1974 and 1976.