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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Monday (April 19) announced its plan to adopt a civics literacy graduation requirement for undergraduates, beginning with students who ...

Rhode Island is failing to teach civics and prepare students to be “capable citizens,” a federal class-action lawsuit alleges. The 14 students in the suit say the state provided such a substandard ...

A student checks a classmate's test during an American government class at the University of South Carolina Beaufort in Bluffton on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. In the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute’s ...

Florida college students will need to take a government or history course and pass an exam similar to the nation’s citizenship test to earn degrees under a new rule approved Wednesday as part of Gov.

Peyton Amaral, a middle schooler with a pale pink suit jacket and a swath of blue and purple hair, stood before the Fall River City Council this April, arguing for a ban on plastic bags. “Pollution is ...