National research shows declining trust in government. A 2025 report from the Pew Research Center on civics learning and ...

As the political divide in the U.S. grows, there has been renewed attention toward having a standardized civics education curriculum at Stanford. Since 2021, Stanford has established required courses ...

While this may be a good time to take advantage of the public’s attention, it’s also a time when teachers increasingly fear repercussions for offending students. By Alina Tugend This article is from a ...

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager ...

Last year, faculty across Florida reviewed general education catalogs to ensure courses fell in line with a new law targeting ...

So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. Sponsored by the U.S. Semiquincentennial, or the America 250 Commission, the contest invited ...

Only 27 percent of young people in Generation Z strongly agree with the statement that democracy is “the best form of government.” Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/ Associated Press The Hechinger Report ...

In his recent piece in Education Next, my AEI colleague Frederick Hess offers a crucial corrective to the prevailing winds in civic education. He calls for a “post-BS civics” – one grounded not in ...