In Private Manning's case, the issue before the court — whether leaking classified documents can be cast as aiding the enemy — has profound civic implications.
Although there has been measurable progress in recent years in reading ability at the elementary school level, all progress appears to halt as children enter their teenage years... Most alarming, both reading ability and the habit of regular reading have greatly declined among college graduates...the declines have demonstrable social, economic, cultural, and civic implications.
This may yet prove to be a useful strategy for winning Senate races and even the White House, but from a civic perspective, its implications for the country are grim.
This paper aims to address this gap by identifying how specific dimensions of social capital are experienced in the prison environment, looking closely at the transferability and translation of trust and safety, informal networks, formal networks, agency, civic engagement, and implications of these social capital dimensions on health within this population.
Some are extraordinary, helping students make sense of a complex and interdependent world, developing their analytical and problem-solving skills, challenging them to engage the unsolved problems of the world around them and prodding them to think through the ethical, civic and societal implications of a given course of action.
For civic education, the implication of deliberative democracy is that people should learn to participate in discussions, which may be both face-to-face and "mediated" by the news media and social media.
Too many people behave as if they live in a civic vacuum, no broader implications to their individual behavior.
Such obvious implications of civic pride are enhanced by the unparalleled portrayal of a contemporary event on the frieze of the building: the procession of citizens in the yearly festival in honour of Athena.
Because corporate tyranny takes place in the so-called private sphere, it seems to us like a niche problem for the labor movement, not a civic problem with broad implications for our society, on par with gerrymandering or the rise of the surveillance state.
This commentary considers three visualization studies that have implications for civic participation in design and planning of landscape change.
This experience from social statistics and awareness of related implications for civic epistemology could prove instrumental in keeping the HBM system open enough to address locally relevant environmental health inequities.
