Sentences with phrase «produce informed citizens»

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

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In his independent review of the Welsh curriculum published earlier this year, Professor Graham Donaldson claimed that producing «ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world» should be one of the curriculum's primary purposes, an assertion which the Education Minister echoed in his comments in the Senedd.

Are charter schools, online providers, and private and parochial schools all afraid they will not get access to public funds if parents recognize that they too are aimed at neural rewiring «to produce knowledgeable and competent adults able to participate as informed citizens in the democratic process»?