Sentences with phrase «just future citizens»

Children Are Citizens, part of the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Project Zero, is dedicated to the notion that children are not just future citizens; they are citizens now, with the right to express their opinions and participate in the civic and cultural worlds around them.

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We are a democracy, so just like many laws are based on Christian ideals (regardless of what other citizens believe other than Xtianity) laws in the future could be based on Islamic ideas - all it takes is enough voters becoming muslim.

An interesting point was raised in a recent meeting I had for the need for both protest groups and concerned citizens such as ourselves be prepared at future demonstrations of this magnitude for both the police spin and that parts of the media who will just pick up police press releases as undisputed fact.

Outlining the «sad history of orange and green» that has marred the province, Mr Adams spoke of the need to «build a new relationship between orange and green where every citizen can share a prosperous and just future».

So it turns out that it doesn't matter that all the promo material on the film — TV ads, trailers, everything — reveals the story's twist — Lincoln and Jordan and all their fellow citizens aren't survivors of a global disaster but rich people's insurance policies — because all that happens after the secret is revealed is that Bay can finally get down to doing what he loves to do: Stomp and crash and burn and destroy as Lincoln and Jordan escape into the real world — just 20 minutes into our future — and must be recaptured.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Looking out at their students each day, faculty members at Seattle's John Stanford International School don't see just baby faces and blank slates: They see future citizens of an interconnected world.

As we all strive to educate future citizens and recognize that focusing on academic achievement is not enough, The Other Side of the Report Card looks to be just what educators need to focus and assess on those elements needed for success in school and in life.»

His goal isn't just to help his students pass the AP exam, which they do at three times the district average; it's to shape well - informed and influential citizens of the future.

Blair Mantin: Yeah, exactly, if your credit report is going to be important to you, then yeah, this is probably not the right strategy but the folks that I've seen that this has been the lifesaver, have been the old senior citizens who just know their credit report is not really going to help them again in the future and they just don't have the means to even afford the cost of a very small proposal.

True recovery is about more than just moving people in and out of tents; it means setting up the institutions and systems that will empower citizens to build a bright future for themselves and their children.»

Concerned citizens; be they grandparents, scientists, First Nations, business people, activists, civil servants, or students, a movement is growing that is not only demanding the safe, clean, and just energy future the world needs, but is building it.

The Global Witness report, «A Conflict of Interest: The uncertain future of Burma's forests» has just been translated into Burmese for circulation within Burma, whose citizens have, for the first time, access to information about the true state of their country's forests.

If we focus our EcoChallenge teams not only on people who are already committed, and strive to include those who are just beginning on that path, we are not only taking actions that make a difference, we are adding to the population of committed citizens who will go on to take new actions in the future.

Article 20 TFEU therefore does not just establish Union citizenship but also ensures the protection of the future rights of EU citizen children.

In the near future, Antonov said blockchain could help regular Russian citizens and businesses, not just the tech - savvy startup community, by simplifying small business loans.