A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the last decade ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Education advocates are urging stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of ...
Most Marylanders say they keep up with state politics but many struggle to answer basic questions about how their government works, according to a new statewide poll from the University of Maryland, ...
Education advocates are urging stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of American government ahead of a federal assessment update. Every four years, ...
Republicans are systematically eroding the basic civil rights of the American people. As we are seeing in other countries that are experiencing what experts describe as “democratic backsliding,” ...
In our multicultural and polarized society, it’s hard to teach civics in a way that avoids tension. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. Credit: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...
In everyday usage, knowledge refers to awareness of or familiarity with various objects, events, ideas, or ways of doing things. But, as philosophers have noted for centuries, things get complicated ...
Education advocates are urging stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of American government ahead of a federal assessment update. Every four years, ...