Ulster Project
The UK only began civics education in 2002, but the Ulster Project has been bringing together Catholic and Protestant teens from Northern Ireland to the great melting pot (that would be us) for more than forty years...
23 March, 2019
Teaching Hard History
The Southern Poverty Law Center introduces its Teaching Hard History curriculum (and a rich set of resources & recs) as an antidote to our childrens' troubling incomprehension of fraught events that continue to shape our civic landscape...
23 March, 2019
Our Children’s Trust
In the "trial of the century," and potentially one of the greatest civic learning experiences of all time for America's youth, kids are suing the government over climate change, and so far they're 9-0 vs attempts by the administration to stop them...
23 March, 2019
Our American Voice
Our American Voice is taking kids back to the future, showing them how they can apply the wisdom and lessons of the founders to solve problems in their schools and communities today...
23 March, 2019
Project Senior Senior
...while middle schoolers reinvent one of high school's oldest rituals in rural Arcola, and bridge another divide in the process... ...
23 March, 2019
Project Mix It Up
The ingenious approach Chicago elementary school students have come up with to bring their highly diverse school together...
23 March, 2019
Profiles In Courage
The JFK Library announces the winners of its 18th annual Profiles In Courage essay contest, which draws the best young political thinkers and historians in the country; this year's top prize honors an unlikely hero of the women's suffrage movement...
23 March, 2019
Kid Citizen
With KidCitizen, students are gaining deep understanding of key civics concepts by interactively exploring primary source photographs from the Library of Congress, connecting them to their daily lives...
23 March, 2019
Hole In The Wall Project
The most powerful demonstration of the potential impact of technology on learning began in a New Dehli slum twenty years ago, and continues to reverberate today...
23 March, 2019
Case For Contention
The University of Pennsylvania's Jonathan Zimmerman has written The Case For Contention, a powerful history, justification, and 'how to' encouraging teachers to embrace controversy in their classrooms...
23 March, 2019