Sentences with phrase «involved citizenry»

At stake, as a growing chorus of education leaders has chimed, is the nation's ability to compete in a global economy and its success in educating an informed and involved citizenry.

But it seems to me that he's assuming that in America, at least, policy about this can simply be set a bit more like the Soviets would have set it, via authoritarian measures taken by the few, and a bit less like what seems to me to be the only option for progress: the hard slog of civic debate, inherently involving the citizenry, even in cases when most citizens already agree on the basic facts.

Not exact matches

Ghana also became self - sufficient in the production of food as the citizenry got involved in the cultivation of backyard garden.

This issue seems to have disappeared from the national debate after the Parents Involved Supreme Court decision in 2007, but I think the lack of diversity in schools today is a powerful driver of the achievement gap and carries adverse future implications for our society and citizenry.

Two Illinois courts of appeals held that Illinois» tax credit for educational expenses is constitutional because it has a clearly secular legislative purpose of ensuring a well - educated citizenry and relieving public expense, has the primary effect of effectuating those purposes, and involves no more government entanglement with religion than many other state tax laws.

I agree with the science academies that having a citizenry attuned to the process of science is as vital as building learning experiences that involve experimentation (and failure).