Some schools and teachers have found that it is easier to cut civics education altogether to avoid parental complaints. Credit: Julie Jacobson/Associated Press The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...
Ben Sheehan explores why many Americans know so little about government and how to change that. In this episode of Civics Made Easy, Ben Sheehan explores America’s civic knowledge gap and why so many ...
Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...
ANDERSON — Elementary students in the South Madison Community School Corp. are getting a first-hand look at the operation of county government. Third-grade students in each of the district’s three ...