High school students observe a moment of silence outside the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh in memory of the victims of the Florida...

Public schools are supposed to developed engaged, informed citizens — not just prep kids for college and careers, notes Fordham fellow...

If a school lets students walk out, without penalty, to protest gun violence, is it obliged to allow walkouts for other issues? What...

The Parkland survivors are experts on how it feels to be terrorized by a gunman. That doesn’t make them experts on what policies would...

A month after the Parkland, Florida massacre, students across the country plan to walk out of class for 17 minutes on March 14 to honor...

The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video...

What So Proudly We Hail has published a Veterans Day curriculum, which includes Mark Twain’s The War Prayer,  an Ernie Pyle dispatch,...

“Our public schools” have a critical role as “an incubator of citizens,” writes Erika Christakis in The Atlantic. Our public-education...

Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech and another 16 percent aren’t sure,...

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Whatever happened to Officer Friendly? asks Eric Easter of Urban News Service. “I remember Officer Friendly used to come from 1st to 4th...

In The Case for Contention, Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson argue for the Enlightenment tradition, writes David Steiner in an...

Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...

When a New York City school began inviting students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, it “sparked tensions,” reports DNAinfo New York....

What colleges call “the New Civics” is really “progressive political activism,” charges a National Association of Scholars report, Making...