News and Insights

Continuing the Momentum of Civic Learning Week 2025

In an era where everything and everyone seems deeply polarized, how does a field maintain its sense of positivity, integrity, and viewpoint diversity? That was the high bar we set for this year’s Civic Learning Week, and we are proud to say the field rose to and far exceeded it.

March 28, 2025

Insights

Appreciating our Teachers, the Foremost Guardians of our Constitutional Democracy

Shawn Healy, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, iCivics

Teachers have weathered two-plus tumultuous years of pandemic and polarized political debates about civics and history content and pedagogy. Nevertheless, they persist.

April 25, 2022

The Three Pillars of CivxNow

In order to foster civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions in our nation’s youth, we must facilitate a shift in public mindset, prioritizing the civic mission of schools.

March 28, 2022

How Private Foundations Can Support Civic Education — A Spotlight on Lumina Foundation

This past spring, The Indiana General Assembly passed House Bill 1384, which requires that every student in the Hoosier State complete a one-semester course in civic education in either sixth, seventh, or eighth grade,