Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for ...

Teachers have taught through two impeachments, several contentious presidential elections, the rise in online misinformation, a pandemic, a racial reckoning that launched nationwide protest movements, ...

Civics teacher Aedrin Albright stands before her class at Chatham Central High School in Bear Creek, N.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 5 ...

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Civics education in public schools has been on the wane for decades, and it shows. Here’s how Massachusetts is making it matter again. It’s early September at Newton’s Bigelow Middle School, and a ...

Jonathan Collins, a professor of political science, public policy and education at Brown University, talks about the so-called "Nation's Report Card" on civics and U.S. history. The so-called Nation's ...

Civics textbooks sit on a shelf in an Advanced Placement social studies class at Huffman High School in Birmingham, Ala. (Julie Bennett for The Washington Post) Perspective by Jay Mathews Thoughtful ...

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