Changes to the National Assessment of Educational Progress will improve civics education.

Policymakers see the country’s 250th anniversary as a chance to bolster civics education. Educators say they face challenges ...

Education advocates are urging stronger national civics standards as new data highlights gaps in students’ understanding of American government ahead of a federal assessment update. Every four years, ...

MINOT — Americans, in 2025, have more access to the accumulated knowledge and wisdom of millennia of human inquiry than at any other time in history. If you’d learned about this turn of events back in ...

On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as ...

It’s low-hanging comedic fruit, ripe for the picking by late-night television talk show hosts. Folks out shopping or strolling a city street are stopped at random and quizzed on their knowledge of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I would like to remind U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minnesota, of some basic civics lessons that he seems to have forgotten recently. The First Amendment of the Bills of Rights guarantees all Americans the ...