Sentences with phrase «less about the civic»

But we have been hearing a lot less about the civic mission of our schools — and the importance of education for our democracy.

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Roughly speaking, about half the decline in civic engagement has come about because those born before 1945 are inexorably leaving the scene and are being replaced by the less civically engaged generations born after 1945.

All the aforementioned obstacles in society and within the education profession impede any large political unit (such as a state) from attaining consensus about what should be in its civics standards - much less tying an enforcement regimen to them.

DeVos called public education a «dead end» before becoming education secretary and has continued to talk about it in less - than - flattering terms, refusing to acknowledge the value of what has been America's most important civic institution.

You'll find that both models are pretty close in terms of passenger space, however, if you opt for a moon - roof - equipped civic, you'll find yourself with about an inch less headroom compared to that of the Mazda.

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.

But it should be emphasized that, although his points on the anti-intellectualism of creation science and lousy civics knowledge are sound, when he surrounds that with misdirection and literally unsupportable talking points about the global warming issue, his message looks less like one of genuine concern and more like a subtle excuse to validate global warming propaganda.