The American education system currently deserves an “F” for its failures to teach even the basics on the American government and how it functions. This was demonstrated in embarrassing fashion this ...

There is something deeply tormenting about naturalized American citizens perpetrating heinous acts of terrorism against innocents. I live just a few miles from the Temple Israel Synagogue in West ...

It’s election season. Too bad a study this year from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that more than 70% of respondents failed a basic U.S. civic literacy quiz, with over 30% not knowing that there ...

Hans Zeiger is president of the Jack Miller Center (www.jackmillercenter.org), an educational venture empowering academic scholars to teach America’s founding principles and history. The second week ...

A roiling national debate over the political and intellectual culture of American college campuses reached the University of South Carolina this week, as school officials announced plans for a new ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — As part of a $153 million federal investment in American history and civics education, the University of Tennessee Institute of American Civics received over $2 million from the U.S ...

Education advocates are urging stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of American government ahead of a federal assessment update. Every four years, ...

Amid rising political violence, the need for nonpartisan civic education has never been clearer. Yet saying, “civic thought” or “civic life and leadership” now reads conservative. Should it? With the ...

The Iowa state House recently passed a bill mandating that the state’s public universities add two introductory civics ...