The defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career — a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new city ordinance in his Austin suburb — would now violate Texas law.

Americans have been to class every day since Jan. 20: civics class. For months, various writers have moaned about adults not knowing enough about our democracy and that civics is ...

At the Lake Champlain Waldorf School in Vermont, teacher Rebekah Hopkinson starts each class with a poem.“I find that it helps orient the students to what we're really talking about, which is human ...

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 ...

With all of the mess that is going on involving the president of our country, many news reports leave us speculating that No. 45 was asleep at the wheel or cut civics class. Much of the focus is on ...

It isn’t ego that makes Hal Biehl think his civics class at Riverview High School is so valuable for students. “I tell the kids on the first day of class, ‘This is the most important class you’ll have ...

A civics makeover is unfolding in a school cafeteria on Chicago's West Side, where some 40 Chicago Public School teachers are debating hot-button issues and role-playing as members and staffers of a ...

A civics makeover is unfolding in a school cafeteria on Chicago’s West Side, where some 40 Chicago Public School teachers are debating hot-button issues and role-playing as members and staffers of a ...

Bill Haltom is a writer who resides in Memphis and Monteagle. When I was in the ninth grade, I took civics, a class that all Tennessee public school students were required to take at the time. In the ...