Elizabeth Metts is a 9th grade history teacher, team leader and teaching fellow mentor at Excel Academy Charter High School ...

Civics education is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties. It is a study we should embrace with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the ...

Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that an acolyte of Donald Trump is making big plans for a “post-Constitutional” government through a series of historic changes that would give the ...

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 ...

Shannon Salter aimed to turn all the seniors in her high school civics class into voters. Her task has never been harder. Shannon Salter aimed to turn all the seniors in her high school civics class ...

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free ...

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Often called “the father of American education,” Horace Mann argued that free, standardized schooling was key to self-governance, calling education the “great equalizer of the conditions of men.” A ...

On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as ...

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Question: How will a team of Wilbur Cross students get to the national finals of a U.S. Constitution-focused competition in Washington, D.C.? Answer: By honing their oratorical skills, arguing against ...

It is midnight in American politics. With the presidential election upon us, a large majority of voters are disillusioned by the state of our democracy. The word “fascism” is increasingly prevalent in ...