Happy Constitution Day! How many First Amendment freedoms can you name? If you get more than one, you're a civics star. Americans' civics...

Do "good citizens" always listen to leaders? Ilya Somin was taken aback by the worksheet his seven-year-old daughter brought home from...

New laws restricting how teachers can discuss "divisive issues" try "to impose a singular narrative of the United States, because —...

The City of Orlando's email promoting a Fourth of July fireworks display set off fireworks of its own with a sour jape: “A lot of people...

U.S. high school students and their teachers agree that people should be allowed to express unpopular opinions, according to the Knight...

What should every American know? Aspen’s Citizenship and American Identity program is asking. The video features four immigrants talking...

When was the U.S. Constitution ratified? Which countries did the U.S. fight in World War II? Asked multiple-choice questions from...

“We live in an era where we knock down old American heroes for all their imperfections, when no leader wants to admit to fault or...

The right to an education doesn’t include a right to literacy — yet. However, “a judge has ruled that California can be put on trial for...

High school students observe a moment of silence outside the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh in memory of the victims of the Florida...

Public schools are supposed to developed engaged, informed citizens — not just prep kids for college and careers, notes Fordham fellow...

If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...

The Parkland survivors are experts on how it feels to be terrorized by a gunman. That doesn’t make them experts on what policies would...

A month after the Parkland, Florida massacre, students across the country plan to walk out of class for 17 minutes on March 14 to honor...

The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video...

What So Proudly We Hail has published a Veterans Day curriculum, which includes Mark Twain’s The War Prayer,  an Ernie Pyle dispatch,...

“Our public schools” have a critical role as “an incubator of citizens,” writes Erika Christakis in The Atlantic. Our public-education...

Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech and another 16 percent aren’t sure,...

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Whatever happened to Officer Friendly? asks Eric Easter of Urban News Service. “I remember Officer Friendly used to come from 1st to 4th...