A recent Fox News survey found that 70% of voters believe there is a need for more civics education. It stands to reason as fewer than one-quarter of US eighth graders performed at or above ...

On Monday, the Department of Education announced $153 million in grants for “American history and civics seminars.” The grants are awarded in varying sums to 85 institutions, including over 50 ...

The Trump administration is pouring money into civics education ahead of the country's 250th birthday. It recently awarded more than $150 million to dozens of colleges, universities and other groups.

On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, a large mob breached and ransacked the Capitol in protest of what they believed to be a “stolen” presidential election. For many Americans, the event – known as the Insurrection – ...

Jason Bedrick is a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation's Center for Education Policy. Everyone agrees that American students need better civics education. Civic knowledge in America is ...

・The new report from the James G. Martin Center argues there is a significant gap in civics education at the higher education level. ・The report calls for mandatory civics education, emphasizing its ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As part of a $153 million federal investment in American history and civics education, the University of Tennessee Institute of American Civics received over $2 million from the U.S ...

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 ...

Shortly before the 4 th of July, I wrote about the need for a “post-BS” education that focuses far less on celebrating activism and far more on the duties of citizenship and cultivating an ...

A century ago, civics education was inseparable from the teaching of personal responsibility and virtues. Today, civics education has changed drastically—and not for the better. Some states do not ...