Sentences with phrase «kids about justice»
Not exact matches
My big kids read this book several times and it sparked great conversations about reconciliation and justice for First Nations.
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«Our God is a God of justice, and He's nuts about kids!»
When kids begin asking hard questions, they are ready to talk about social justice.
When your kids start talking about many different things and have opinions on topics like politics, environmental health, civic justice and whatnot, you can bet on the fact that they are growing up.
As part of our work to insert the stories and perspectives of moms into the national conversation about climate change, Moms Clean Air Force DC fielded a large and visible contingent of 20 moms and kids to attend the Rally for Climate Justice in September, 2015, to mark Pope Francis» climate leadership on the day of his address to the US Congress.
Parents hear horror stories about kids involved with the juvenile justice system and are often afraid to contact them.
«Congressman Ellison recognizes that progressive politics matter at the most local of levels: to families seeking a job that pays the bills, to kids from low - income families hoping to go to college, and to parents worried about whether their kids of color will be treated fairly by the criminal justice system.
Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
To sum up for the impatient folks, this is a movie about a dead kid's attempt, from beyond the grave, to exact revenge on the abusive stepfather of the girl on whom he has a crush, using his grieving mother as the tool of vigilante justice.
It's nearly impossible to get excited about superhero movies anymore, but along with Ryan Coogler's Black Panther and Zack Snyder's Justice League (just kidding), Venom is part of a small crop worth being hyped about.
I told this story to a group of two dozen or so of my fellow ed reformers last week at an American Enterprise Institute convening on «race, social justice, and school reform» because I wanted to make two simple (some will say simplistic) points: our expensive and aggressive ed reform efforts still focus far too little on what kids do in school all day; and we don't all have the same ideas about what it means to serve the cause of social justice — or whether it is even appropriate to place social justice issues at the heart of our efforts to improve outcomes for kids.
«Teaching to make pajamas is one thing but to see a kid excited about activism, social justice, and art is another thing entirely,» she says.
With its emphasis on perspective - taking, public speaking, and exploring difficult themes, theater is a valuable medium for teaching kids about social justice.
If you see education reform as a social justice or civil rights crusade, you will care mightily about whether every charter is educating its share of kids with disabilities and whether enough «people of color» are running these schools.
To accomplish improving schools the state must make sure the Local Control Funding Formula resources get to the kids who need them most — it's about educational justice.
The teachers unions in those cities, who profess to be all about the kids, social justice and progressivism, pound the table and insist that our outdated 19th Century Prussian - style zip - code mandated school system continue without any innovation, just more money.
Because this movement is about giving kids who need us the most the justice that has alluded so many of them in the current system.
The Rivertown Kids Chorus sings with folk icon Pete Seeger about civil rights, social justice, cleaning up the Hudson River, global warming and the power of one person to create community and make great changes in the world.
In his Sunday, February 29th post, blogger Jonathan Purtle wrties about the economic and social costs of child maltreatment He poses and answers the question «why would mistreated kids grow up to earn less money and be more involved with the criminal justice system than their counterparts?