Civic education is vital in preparing students for the responsibilities and obligations of democratic citizenship. But a third of native-born American citizens fail the history and civics exam administered to immigrants who are seeking U.S. citizenship.
Kate Kelly | Posted 04.28.2012
The United States Constitution is one of the most influential political documents of all time, and it is the cornerstone that supports our liberty. ...
Michael Serota | Posted 04.18.2012
We ought to be teaching our nation's students about law, rights, and the operation of our system of justice. A future generation of law-abiding, rights-respecting citizens depends upon it.
John M. Eger | Posted 12.24.2011
Kids have "grown up digital" as author Don Tapscott would say. They have computers, and cell phones and video games, Facebook, and Twitter and who kno...
Les Francis | Posted 11.16.2011
Despite a past of educating children to be capable and engaged citizens, too many of our schools are now failing at their civic mission. When less than one third of American eighth graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, we have a problem.
CNN | Jacob Soboroff | Posted 09.27.2011
Washington (CNN) -- If there's a student anywhere who would be able to answer a trivia question about President Abraham Lincoln, it would be on the ma...
Adora Svitak | Posted 09.27.2011
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
Newsweek | Danielle Friedman | Posted 09.02.2011
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has launched a series of videogames that teach kids about government. She talks to Danielle Friedman ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.14.2011
If you can identify one advantage American troops held over the British in the American Revolution, chances are you know more U.S. history than most e...
Alan Singer | Posted 07.23.2011
Dawn and Claire find that their eighth-grade students remember little about American government from the previous year. They decided there had to be a better way to promote civic knowledge.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.04.2011
NEW YORK -- Can you name the three branches of the American government, their powers, and how other branches limit their powers? If so, you have a leg...
Michael J. McCarthy | Posted 06.07.2011
Last summer, Latinos were in the streets protesting what they seen as unfair immigration laws. They played a proactive role in rectifying an injustice. Why aren't the rest of us?
Ashley Garcia | Posted 05.25.2011
Two high school seniors from opposite ends of the country have one very important interest in common: They are counting down the days to cast their first ballots.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
The fight we are in for isn't the head-stomping, name-calling one. Let them have their sandbox. The next democratic battleground will be over our institutions of governing.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Who is the Vice President? How many Senators are there? How many Supreme Court Justices? A new online survey suggests many Americans can't answer tho...
Steven G. Brant | Posted 05.25.2011
America needs more Superheroes, because it's going to take a lot of us to keep America from completely going over to the "Darkseid".
Kate Quarfordt | Posted 05.25.2011
Recently I joined educational leadership organization ASCD and partner education organizations to present a briefing on policy recommendations for well-rounded elementary and secondary education.
Alan W. Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011
We need more "Camp Karen" types of activities in all of our civic spaces. In bringing dignity back to politics, we all grow as a people.
Posted 05.25.2011
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an educa...
Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011
It is possible -- indeed, essential -- for schools to find the right organizational balance between individual freedom and group structure.
William Fisher | Posted 05.25.2011
Souter spoke of the spectacular ignorance of the American electorate about the government they select people to serve in. And the consequences of that ignorance.
Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.25.2011
I recently spoke with the inspirational former Supreme Court Justice about her new web site, the judiciary and her legacy as the first woman on the Supreme Court.
Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011
A decent seat at a ballgame will go for five, six, or seven times the price of a center orchestra seat on Broadway. This has never been true in my lifetime. For the game, this is a disaster.
Yahoo! News | Thu Nov 20, 2:24 Pm ET | Posted 05.25.2011
US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized th...
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011
Rather than end this discussion, the New Yorker should host a large public gathering for Americans seeking to express outrage at an election hijacked by cynicism.
Bob Kerrey | Posted 05.26.2012