Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ohio freshmen arriving on public university campuses this fall face a new graduation requirement: a state-mandated American civics ...

Ohio Republicans have introduced a bill to protect civics schools at the state’s universities from leftwing influences. The Strengthening Ohio Civics Act would grant independence in hiring, curriculum ...

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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Civics class was once a part of the curriculum in most schools, but not so much any more. One local pastor is on a mission to change that, and specifically in the Black community.

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 ...

Virginia, Florida and South Dakota have new standards that focus on patriotism, Christianity and anti-communism. But debating current events? That’s discouraged. By Dana Goldstein Dana Goldstein ...

In his 2023 book, The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, Richard Hass sadly tells us that in America “Only eight states and the District of Columbia require a full year of high ...

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 ...

Ohio freshmen arriving on public university campuses this fall face a new graduation requirement: a state-mandated American civics literacy course that supporters say will combat ideological bias and ...