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 ...

Making civics class relate more to students' lives is working in some US schools and could be fresh approach needed in NC.

NORTH ANDOVER — Civics in Action, a class at North Andover Middle School taught by Patrick McGravey, leaps feet-first into citizenship and American governance. Since 2018, when then-Gov. Charlie Baker ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A quartet of eighth grade students sit next to each other in a social studies classroom at Carroll Middle School. Across from them is a proctor who asks a variety of ...

After years on the back burner of the nation’s educational agenda, civics is making a comeback, with a number of states mandating new classes or assessments and a burgeoning national push for ...