A new middle school civics class was approved by the Indiana State Board of Education one year after state lawmakers required the government and citizenship standards to be taught to younger students.

The defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career — a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new city ordinance in his Austin suburb — would now violate Texas law.

Civics textbooks sit on the shelf in an Advanced Placement social studies class in April 2019 at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Ala. (Julie Bennett for The Washington Post) I love history. I ...

Civics in Action, a class at North Andover Middle School taught by Patrick McGravey, leaps feet-first into citizenship and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Desert Sun’s recent reporting by Tom Coulter about Californians wanting more civics courses for young people, “Amid growing polarization, most Californians want to see stronger civics courses for ...

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 ...

PROVIDENCE — The commissioner of education has agreed to create a civics task force as part of an agreement to end a federal lawsuit brought by students across the state. The federal lawsuit, filed by ...

In 1957, the United States had its "Sputnik moment." As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response was a massive ...