background readings, vocabulary, and student activities. Youth Stand Up provides models and tools to support students in building civics content knowledge, developing and practicing civic and media ...

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 ...

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 ...

A curriculum emphasizing the understanding of civics was core to that argument. Up until the 1960’s, American high schools required up to three courses in government and civics but in the last ...