Elizabeth Metts is a 9th grade history teacher, team leader and teaching fellow mentor at Excel Academy Charter High School ...

American 14-year-olds performed well in the International Civic Education Study, which was administered to 90,000 students in 28 democratic countries. Overall, the U.S. 9th graders were among the most ...

I recall, many decades ago — eighth grade? seventh grade maybe? — part of our curriculum in my Worcester public school was civics class. I do remember we held classroom elections to illustrate how the ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- When Kevin Brennan, a civics teacher at West Valley High School, assigned students in his U.S. government class to do projects on local, state and national midterm election ballot ...

In high schools across the country, thousands of Canadian teens will be getting their first taste of civics education this fall. Yet for far too many, the mere prospect induces groans and yawns.

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