A recent Fox News survey found that 70% of voters believe there is a need for more civics education. It stands to reason as fewer than one-quarter of US eighth graders performed at or above ...

It’s election season. Too bad a study this year from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that more than 70% of respondents failed a basic U.S. civic literacy quiz, with over 30% not knowing that there ...

Civics is generally taught in schools from kindergarten through high school; however, many factors, including fewer civics teachers and the topic now becoming controversial, have led to public schools ...

A common refrain today is, “We need to teach civics in our schools.” I can’t argue that point. Do we teach civics? Where and how? I have strong feelings about this topic, but I needed to get some ...

Since the Jan. 6 insurrection, I have thought a lot about civics and how we teach it in our schools. Or rather, how we don’t teach it enough. Since the space race of the 1960s, the United States has ...

The vast majority of the American electorate lacks basic knowledge of how their government works, according to a recent study conducted ahead of President's Day. More than 7 in 10 Americans failed a ...

OGDEN — Organizers of a civics festival are hoping that area youths and their families will come away from this year’s event with a better understanding of their government and how to participate in ...

BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. Every hand shoots up. “So, how ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rick Hess is a scholar who writes about K-12 and higher education. Jan 17, 2024, 09:51am EST Americans don’t know a lot about ...

Every September, the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center releases survey results of Americans’ civic knowledge and every year those results are deeply depressing. Too many ...

Sunlight begins to hit the dome of the U.S. Capitol on the morning of Jan. 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum Getty Images/TNS We have all seen the ubiquitous “man on the street” interviews ...

DENVER — The state competition for the National Civics Bee puts Colorado middle schoolers in a live quiz event to answer questions from judges to test their civic knowledge. The Colorado Chamber of ...