Most Americans would have trouble passing the new citizenship exam.

The U.S. Education Department will fund patriotic education for America's 250th anniversary, but will schools go along?

Can you pass Oklahoma's test for new teachers? Yes, unless you're a very dim bulb.

Should teachers teach about the election?

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

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

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...

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...

Washington state plans to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, but it's not clear what that means, writes David J....

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...

I learned about separation of powers, checks and balances and the three separate and equal branches of government -- executive,...

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