Civic skills focus on building relationships, gathering information from diverse sources, analyzing that information, synthesizing it, and communicating in meaningful ways. In other words, civic learning teaches students how to translate academic knowledge in a world where values matter.
Long-term increases in rental housing prices and utility costs combined with stagnant or falling incomes are creating escalating affordability pressures for U.S. renters. "Rental markets are now tightening, with vacancy rates falling and rents climbing," finds a new report by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University
Key findings:
* Education in Minnesota appears to be more "civic."
* Twin Cities residents appear to have stronger social networks than do residents of Miami.
* Levels of trust and satisfaction are much higher in the St. Paul area than in the Miami area
* Twin Cities residents were more than twice as likely to volunteer than Miami residents