West Texas A&M University jointly won a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to promote civics ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career — a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new ...

West Texas A&M University has jointly won a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to encourage ...

Perhaps at no moment in recent American memory has a widespread understanding of civics been more crucial. Yet the portents are ominous. The latest surveys show that fewer than half of American adults ...

As a guy who taught high school civics back in the last century, I have some admittedly old-fashioned notions about civics instruction. For instance, it may sound archaic to some, but I still think ...

The impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is generating debate about checks and balances, presidential versus congressional power and just what requirements the Constitution lays out for ...

Civics education is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties. It is a study we should embrace with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the ...

Knowing the three branches of government or the legal basis for Brown vs. Board of Education or the exact number of square miles in Nebraska or any of a number of questions on a civics test is no ...

Everyone agrees civics education needs redefining, but the concept is becoming too broad—and some new initiatives may lead to further polarization. Instead of rethinking civics, we need to rethink ...

This year, students across the country are encountering an unforgiving climate. Some of these climate challenges are literal—the disasters of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria. Some of them are ...

So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. Sponsored by the U.S. Semiquincentennial, or the America 250 Commission, the contest invited ...

LINCOLN — Nebraska teens, under a 2019 state law, must clear a civics requirement to graduate. Immigrants must pass a test on ...