At Vertex Partnership Academies , a charter high school in the Bronx, students recite the Preamble to the Constitution every day, writes...

Tim Walz, a former social studies teacher who hopes to be vice president, said, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or...

Teenagers 16 and 17 year old will be able to vote for school board in Oakland and Berkeley.

Social studies teachers are eager to discuss the election -- students might actually care! -- but also very nervous about...

Parents want to know what will be taught in soon-to-be-mandatory ethnic studies class.

When Bruno Manno was growing up in the '50s and '50s, his family would gather at his grandparents' Italian tavern, to eat, drink and...

Young voters say politicians are corrupt and America is in decline in new poll.

Polarization is chilling classroom dialogue, according to a series of interviews with teachers by the Constructive Dialogue Institute...

"Back to basics" education isn't enough, writes Gillian Richards on The American Conservative. "Some conservatives have responded to...

Only 6 percent of eighth-graders can read Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech and identify two ideas from the Constitution or...

Civic activism can't be required in Texas public schools if it requires communicating with federal, state or local officials, reports...

The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...

"The new National Assessment of Educational Progress civics and history results are as deplorable as they were predictable," writes...

Eighth-graders don't know much about U.S. history and civics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which...

We need to find a way to have school choice and to teach our "shared inheritance" as Americans, writes Fordham's Checker Finn. He worries...

"You are enough" is a popular saying, writes Katherine Boyle on The Free Press. But it's not true. Americans have lost their sense of...

I'm so old I don't know the words to Conjunction Junction. Schoolhouse Rock, animated musical shorts on grammar, history, civics,...

"Fixating on activism misses the point of civics education," write Frederick M. Hess, a former civics teacher now education policy...

Public schools have lost touch with their mission and purpose, writes Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise...