Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Tennessee State Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Civic Crisis--civic Challenge
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Tennessee State Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Civic Crisis -- Civic Challenge
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights. Tennessee State Advisory CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Police
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Community Matters
Author: Verna V. GehringPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742574458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These essays will encourage students, academics, and interested citizens outside the academy to go farther and dig deeper into these vital issues.
Rebuild America
Author: Scott Myers-LiptonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317253175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In Obama's America public works is once again a part of the national dialogue. Today it is offered as a solution to the economic downturn and to the public infrastructure crisis. This timely book examines the reasons for the economic crisis facing Main Street, and connects them to why the nation has structurally deficient bridges, weak levees, poorly maintained dams, and dilapidated schools. The book goes on to analyse the history of US public works, updating lessons from the New Deal, to understand the most effective way to organise a modern US civic works project, based on a civic works pilot project for the Gulf Coast. One chapter features new contributions by Howard Zinn, Angela Glover Blackwell, and other leading scholars and thinkers weighing in on how an US civic works project might solve our economic, infrastructure, and environmental crises.
A Republic, If You Can Teach It
Author: Jeffrey SikkengaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781645720492
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Civic Education Crisis: How We Got Here, What We Must Do is a call to action, an effort to save our republic through better civic education. America faces a crisis in civic education that imperils the long-term health of the country. Too many Americans--especially young people--do not have the knowledge of history and principles necessary to sustain the republic. In what has become a vicious cycle, young people are not learning about their country--its history and how it works--and they grow up disengaged and distrustful. Too many young people do not understand the principles of self-government on which America was founded. And they do not understand America's history as the story of the struggle to live up to those principles of freedom articulated in documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Instead, too many believe that America's story is essentially one of oppression, not freedom--injustice, not hope. In the first half of the book, authors Jeff Sikkenga and David Davenport diagnose the problem while proposing solutions in the second half. Truly, America faces a civics crisis and action is needed now to reverse the trend.
Reframing the Civic University
Author: Julian DobsonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031176863
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book addresses the need for a comprehensive reappraisal of what it means to be a ‘civic university’. For two decades the ‘civic’ agenda has been driven by a concern with economic impact and regional economic development. While recognising the importance of these aspects of universities’ civic influence, there is a need to more comprehensively outline how universities can and should make a difference across a wide spectrum of place-based activity, against a background of intensifying global social and environmental challenges. Rooted in collaborative work by the Civic University Network and community-based partners, the book provides a clear logical framework that universities and their partners can use to examine the extent of their civic activities, but also challenges them to use that framework as a starting point for deeper reflection and engagement. It celebrates the actions universities have taken to respond to communities’ needs, and encourages them to think more rigorously about what they can do in the future, and how they can become more accountable to the communities they serve. The book is an essential read for university leaders, academics involved in public engagement, and civic leaders and representatives who wish to develop closer engagement with their local universities.
Civic Power
Author: K.Sabeel RahmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108386601
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
What will it take to restore American democracy and rescue it from this moment of crisis? Civic Power argues that the current threat to US democracy is rooted not just in the outcome of the 2016 election, but in deeper, systemic forms of inequality that concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the few at the expense of the many. Drawing on historical and social science research and case studies of contemporary democratic innovations across the country, Civic Power calls for a broader approach to democracy reform focused on meaningfully redistributing power to citizens. It advocates for both reviving grassroots civil society and novel approaches to governance, policymaking, civic technology, and institutional design - aimed at dismantling structural disparities to build a more inclusive, empowered, bottom-up democracy, where communities and people have greater voice, power, and agency.
Civil Rights Update
Author: Civil Rights Commission Reauthorization
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the ConstitutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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