Continuing to teach civics in this way was inappropriate, critics said, given the variety of experiences and backgrounds that students brought to the classroom. The word “assimilation,” once ...

Teaching history, he led discussions about how the founding fathers’ backgrounds—white ... The lessons made civic education concrete for them, West said. Now, though, as an elementary school ...

Since the Jan. 6 insurrection, I have thought a lot about civics and how we teach it in our schools. Or rather, how we don’t teach it enough. Since the space race of the 1960s, the United States ...