A higher education reform group is calling for a nationwide requirement that every college student complete a semester-long ...

On June 30, the Florida Statewide Finals of the National Civics Bee will bring together middle school students from across ...

Civic education initiatives are important, but they will only be successful if professors are better prepared to teach them, ...

Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than their parents or grandparents. This was reconfirmed ...

Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

Record youth voter turnout in 2018 and 2020 came amidst waves of heightened enthusiasm around those elections. National get-out-the-vote campaigns channeled that energy to successfully mobilize ...

Conservatives have long cast a skeptical eye on “action civics” in schools. The term refers to the idea that students shouldn’t just learn about citizenship in classrooms, but practice it through ...

When Gary West taught elementary school social studies two decades ago in a suburb of San Antonio, he wasn’t afraid to take his lessons beyond the bounds of the textbook. West wasn’t told to steer ...

I grew up playing every sport under the sun, from soccer and lacrosse to cross country and track and field. In high school, athletics gave me the opportunity to work toward a goal with teammates and ...