News and Insights

Doing Civics for Civics – Modeling Civic Participation on Capitol Hill

Abbie Kaplan, Director, Federal Policy, Strategy, and Operations, iCivics

Earlier this month, CivxNow, in partnership with colleagues at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), took to Capitol Hill with a clear, unified mission: advocate for the future of civics, social studies, and history education. The energy, dedication, and passion of the group of advocates who joined us

July 29, 2026

Insights

End of Session Recap: States Make Progress in Civic Education Policy

CivxNow Team

This spring, CivxNow State Policy Task Force members made their priorities a reality, signaling continued momentum for civic education. Since January, the CivxNow policy team tracked 131 bills in 38 states pertaining to civic education.

June 27, 2023

A Deeper Dive Into What NAEP Civics Tells Us: Urgent Need for Policies Supporting Effective Practices

Earlier this month, we shared our initial reaction to the release of the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in Civics results.

May 25, 2023

Honor Civics Teachers by Supporting Investments in Their Professional Development

Shawn Healy, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, iCivics

As Teacher Appreciation Week (May 7–13) approaches, we salute civic educators from coast to coast for their daily diligence in developing students’ civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

April 26, 2023

Civics in the News

July 2026

Education Week wrote about a new RAND study that shows that civics classes may be on the rise, but only a third of districts offer experiential civic learning, with only 13% requiring it.
Former Virginia Secretary of Education Aimee Rogstad Guidera wrote a piece in Education Next about why the 250th is a time for a civic education renaissance, and how it is happening in Virginia.
The New York Times published an open letter from 16-year-old Chan-Yul Kim, a high schooler in Austin, Texas, about why schools should prioritize civic education
Bill of Rights Institute President and CEO David Bobb wrote in Education Week that at the 250th, civics classes need more civil disagreement.
Joshua Dunn and William Lyons, who direct the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee, wrote in RealClearEducation about how the Institute’s Civics Academies work.