Watch this video to see how responsible, courteous and professional police officers interact with an intelligent and knowledgeable citizen (living in a California city where the majority of citizens are minorities) and imagine interactions like this one with African-American men.
It is a challenge that BENS has acted upon since its creation: where knowledgeable citizens have worked to foster an innovative business-government partnership over the past two decades.
It creates responsible and knowledgeable citizens, offers them an opportunity to see the world in all its complexity, nuance and beauty, and gives them tools to create knowledge themselves.
"So the public discourse, if it is properly organised, is a good thing in itself, of for having active and knowledgeable citizens, so in that sense you couldn't have too much of that.
As Interviewee 3 said: "So the public discourse, if it is properly organised, is a good thing in itself, of for having active and knowledgeable citizens, so in that sense you couldn't have too much of that.
Prior to the enactment of the NCLB, Virginia implemented its own learning standards in 1995 to ensure that students are prepared to enter the work force and become knowledgeable citizens after 12 years of public education.
Considering challenges such as climate change, economic turmoil and international conflict, we need workers who are also knowledgeable citizens.
Community-based arbitration boards should be set up in each hospital made up of knowledgeable citizens, medical professionals AND victims, along with legal counsel to hear and resolve complaints.
Be that as it may, most educators agree that an understanding of energy and energy changes is crucial both for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students and scientifically knowledgeable citizens.
By assuming that each student who walks through the doors of an elementary, middle or high school is a fully knowledgeable online citizen, we are perpetuating societal inequalities that exist among the more and less privileged when it comes to their Internet skills and by extension, the potential benefits they may or may not reap from spending time online.
