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 ...
You would be hard-pressed to find an educator who would argue against the importance of voting. While voting is a key component of maintaining a thriving democracy and has not always been guaranteed ...
Reflecting on Civic Learning Week (CLW), an annual event hosted by iCivics highlighting the importance of civic education in sustaining and strengthening constitutional democracy in the United States.
Everyone has suggestions for how national politics should be run, but with my background in independent journalism, civic education and opinion and interview podcasting, I have the experience of ...
The people who founded America educated themselves about democracy. They studied the histories of earlier civilizations and understood why they had failed. They also had experienced the reality of ...
Twenty states have officially endorsed National Civic Learning Week, March 6-10. Civic knowledge is on the decline. Less than half of Americans can name all three branches of government. Decades of ...
Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields launches a new initiative to educate students on the importance of civic duties and public ...
It’s National News Literacy Week in America, a time to reflect on the relationship we hold so dear between a free press and an empowered citizenry. Incidentally, there’s a local connection: Alan C.
On Tuesday, April 16, the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education held its second annual civic summit to address the question: “How should Massachusetts public schools prepare the ...