Jonathan is the Acting Director of the Center for Education Policy and Will Skillman Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Civics education must be improved, but the ...

Teacher Ivy Mitchell has spent two decades helping students understand how government works. But recently, her eighth-grade civics students didn’t see a clear role for themselves in democracy, ...

Educators and policymakers agree that the teaching of civics in K-12 schools is not preparing children to participate in civic life. A relatively new movement attracting attention in K-12 and higher ...

Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...