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 ...

Veritas Academy in Flushing is producing the next generation of civically engaged citizens through its innovative civics ...

Students and leadership with Hempfield Area School District’s hands-on civics class, Project 18, were honored with proclamations from state and local government officials at a school board meeting ...

RICHMOND — Americans have been to class every day since Jan. 20: civics class. For months, various writers have moaned about adults not knowing enough about our democracy and that civics is no longer ...

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that an acolyte of Donald Trump is making big plans for a “post-Constitutional” government through a series of historic changes that would give the ...

The breakdown of civics in American life is no longer an abstraction debated in classrooms or lamented in policy journals. It is a lived reality, shaping how Americans speak, how they disagree, and ...

This week's ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the resulting turmoil on Capitol Hill has made for some very timely discussions in high school civics classes. This week's turmoil on Capitol ...

Standing up here before all of you and speaking about what makes me a 2025 Golden Apple recipient was something I never thought I would have the honor of doing, and when asked what the golden apple ...

Sixth-grade U.S. history teacher Andrew Waller flashed a photo of a slice of pizza covered in pineapple chunks onto the screen. The class of preteens blurted-out opinions of the controversial pizza ...

An elite private school in the Bronx announced last week that it was making class “optional” for high school students the day after the election. The principal of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School ...

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It isn’t ego that makes Hal Biehl think his civics class at Riverview High School is so valuable for students. “I tell the kids on the first day of class, ‘This is the most important class you’ll have ...