Beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, Bridgeport high school students will be required to take a course in African American Studies, Latin American Studies or Perspectives on Race to earn a diploma.
California is among the first states to create a diploma seal recognizing graduates' civic knowledge and engagement.
The Core Knowledge Foundation has unveiled a free, downloadable social studies curriculum in grades 3-5.
Check out past Education Week coverage of Columbus Day and the debate around it.
The state's Instructional Quality Commission approved 10 textbooks and rejected two others.
Teachers offer ideas about how to discuss the "take the knee" controversy in classes, including English and government, as well as how to deal with challenges.
A new report ties falling rates of civic engagement in the U.S. to not enough federal and state attention on civics education.
Americans' grasp of even basic Constitutional knowledge is weak, prompting calls for redoubling civics education efforts.
Chicago Public School students will learn the details of a police-brutality scandal that rocked the city between the 1970s and the early 1990s.
A high school senior spent his summer putting together a civics textbook that includes the perspectives of politically active youths.
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