Sentences with phrase «new civics classes»

To support schools as they craft their new civics classes, a wealth of online resources and curriculum content are available that present the facts and history of American government, provide an overview of the ideas and the issues that divide our nation and introduce students to the various methods for participating in American politics.

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Murray hopes for «a civic Great Awakening among the new upper class.»

A new class of lay professionals led by trailblazers such as Albertanus of Brescia was setting the foundations of a civic order.

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.

His keen business acumen, honed by years in the private sector and creating one of the most successful financial companies in our nation's history, has kept us ahead of other cities (and even states like California) and helped New York avoid mass layoffs, middle class flight and, most important, civic despair.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

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

The grant funds allowed the school to purchase new civics resource books for all the civics classes, a new 32 computer lab, and new zSpace technology.

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