Sentences with phrase «what civic life»

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What issues in culture and civic life is God asking you to carry in prayer?

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

To ferret out what the ethnic church means for civic life, Ecklund knew that she needed a point of comparison.

When the seasons of the church year set the mood for corporate worship, events in the life of Jesus become the prism through which all else is reflected.4 But when the civic calendar and family - life celebrations govern the worship of a congregation, it is much more difficult for the pastor to convey what it means to reflect about all of life in the light of the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.

The story that needs to be told, therefore, is not necessarily one of the super-wealthy stealing our rights and liberty, but rather one of the traditional middle - classes increasingly joining the ranks of the poor and discovering what it really means to live without the financial security that affords effective civic participation.

We want people to participate in civic life and be invested in what happens.

Against this complex backdrop, what role can civics teachers play in the lives of the immigrant and undocumented students in their classrooms?

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.

The Fundamental Things We Aren't Teaching Our Kids (The Washington Post) Howard Gardner and Rick Weissbourd explain why initiatives to teach and raise students with an understanding of civic and civil life have failed to change things in a meaningful way, and what can be done about it.

Moreover, the aspects of civics that can be spelled out in academic standards and accurately assessed through statewide tests are almost entirely cognitive: well worth learning, to be sure, even a necessary precondition for successful adult life, but not exactly what people have in mind when they say that schools should forge «responsible citizens.»

It's a First Amendment reminder at the beginning of what's actually a lesson on the Second Amendment — the right to bear arms, and one of the most controversial topics in American civic life, let alone the classroom.

«No matter what students grow up to do with their lives, they all have civic rights and responsibilities, so they need to be prepared,» says political philosopher Meira Levinson, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

They exist because states believed it was important to lay out clear expectations for what all kids needed to know at each grade level in order to succeed in future educational settings, the workforce, or as a contributing member of civic life.

School reform is just as much about the three Cs: curriculum (what knowledge and skills students actually learn); counseling (how we prepare young people, professionally and socially, for adult life); and civics (whether we teach students how to participate in American democracy).

Standards are statements of what students should know and be able to do in their work, personal, and civic lives.

When asked what she found particularly appealing about the Curriculum, Ms. Green said, «My students live in a food desert and I believe this Curriculum's emphasis on civic responsibility will encourage them to be active participants in changing that fact.»

Eventually growing tired of civic life, and pessimistic at what he came to believe was art's limited capacity for social change, he packed up and moved away from LA to the barren landscape and harsh environment of Joshua Tree, no longer able to afford studio space in the city.

During this live episode of Recode Decode, Kara will sit down with attorney, businesswoman and civic leader Valerie Jarrett to talk diversity and inclusion in the tech industry, how to lead in the #metoo era, and what tech leaders should consider in today's political landscape.

It is a project with many precedents in American history, quite a few of them cautionary tales about what happens when a powerful corporation takes control of civic life.

What a simple concept this is, yet you'd be surprised how frequently even the world's top entrepreneurs, professionals, educators and civic leaders get caught up in projects, situations and opportunities that are merely good, while the great is left out in the cold — waiting for them to make room in their lives.

And what about the tradeoff between civic commitments and a balanced personal life?