College freshmen in Ohio must take a civic literacy course, but professors are torn about its worth and question its effect on academic freedom.

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 ...

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 ...

Speakers from the FSU Institute of Governance and Civics, Tallahassee State College and the Florida League of Cities will explain issues at series.

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 ...

A voting sign outside Salina Intermediate School in Dearborn, Mich., during the state's primary on Feb. 27. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) Regarding Daniel Pink’s March 5 Tuesday Opinion column, ...

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 ...

Kara Cisco wants her students to deliberate. Each week in her 9th grade civics class in a suburb of Minneapolis, the educator guides students through differing ideas of American government. Whether it ...

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 ...