The decline of civic education hit bottom about a decade ago and is at last on the rebound. This fact brings me hope.

As a professor at a public research university, the opportunity to teach undergraduates is challenging but full of satisfaction and offers insights into their viewpoints about American society. Our ...

Political pressure is prompting more than a third of social studies teachers to axe some topics from their lessons, according to a new survey. The poll, from the education nonprofit and advocacy group ...

Civics is generally taught in schools from kindergarten through high school; however, many factors, including fewer civics teachers and the topic now becoming controversial, have led to public schools ...

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 ...

Our collective future depends on what is happening in our classrooms. That’s not exaggeration — it’s fact. Because the lessons taught there shape how young people see their place in the world — and ...

As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response was a massive prioritization of science, technology, engineering, ...

The Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville was established three years ago during a time when national discussions centered on critical race theory and "wokeism," in ...

A lack of civic education is making American politics toxic, leading to polarization and even justifying political violence.

Students should graduate from high school with a comprehensive understanding of the structure, function, and principles of American government; Students should understand the historical foundations of ...