One of the positive effects of the last two years has been a cornucopia of new books for younger children about activism and true stories of kids who've changed the world. Brightly shares lists and de...

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...

With input from more than 7,000 educators and education supporters,CivX Now has literally put K-12 civics on the map, a crowdsourced geography intended to point the way to the ultimate destination...

Where do the long moral arcs we've been tracing go in the end? For Facing History, they come back to us, and our children, in classrooms across the country......

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......

Hudson Lab School, a progressive K-12 institution located within the confines of a skilled nursing home on New York's most storied river, is immersed in and exploring the full potential of intergenera...

In these times, The Journal Of The American Revolution is providing a lively, award-winning potential blueprint for our future exhumed from the mosaic of details that make up the foundation of o...

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...

Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Illinois are among the states testing the proposition that adding labor history and activities to the curriculum will help better prepare students for the future of work--a...

Headed by ed tech legend Karen Cator, Digital Promise's League Of Innovative Schools is a go-to for 21st century creative inspiration......

The greatest gap between civic engagement and the capacity to inculcate it as a way of living occurs during the middle school years. A new competition, soon to be nationwide, aims to close it...

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......

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...

One of the best new board games in the board game renaissance happens to be highly educational and about the biggest crisis our country has faced since World War II and the Great Depression combined...

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...

The ingenious approach Chicago elementary school students have come up with to bring their highly diverse school together......

...while middle schoolers reinvent one of high school's oldest rituals in rural Arcola, and bridge another divide in the process... ...

For more than twenty-five years, Seeds For Peace has been building relationships between Israeli and Palestinian teens, and now they've taken what they've learned on the road, to the US, UK, India, a...

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 c...

This exhaustive report, pulling from a wide body of research, shows Brown v Board of Education was rightly decided for all students, and for many reasons...

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 t...

One of the longest, most painstaking, and ironic arcs in American history has been voting rights--apres Parkland, could kids be next to get them? A coalition of K-12 civics groups is working to make i...

Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman has been the lead mapper of the hidden hard-wired biases that fool we, the people, over and over again.School Of Thought has distilled these down to a point where K-6 ed...