Our collective future depends on what is happening in our classrooms. That’s not exaggeration — it’s fact. Because the lessons taught there shape how young people see their place in the world — and ...

These lessons are designed to help students differentiate between the things they want and the things they need. The children will be introduced to the idea that people's most basic needs are ...

A century ago, civics education was inseparable from the teaching of personal responsibility and virtues. Today, civics education has changed drastically—and not for the better. Some states do not ...

Minnesota high school students are supposed to receive a heavier dose of civics education this year, but the legislator behind that effort isn’t so sure it’s going to happen. At least not the way he ...

Civics education is the study of the theoretical, political and practical aspects of citizenship, as well as its rights and duties. It is a study we should embrace with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, the ...

In Heather Veatch’s fourth grade class at East Washington Academy in Muncie, students run for office at the beginning of the year. Despite their nerves, they each give a speech to their peers ...

Refugee children are people without a country, living in families without a home. Sometimes they no longer have a family. They are children without a childhood. Every day, somewhere on this planet, ...