News and Insights

Doing Civics for Civics – Hill Day 2026

Abbie Kaplan | Director of Federal Policy Strategy & 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

Propelling Information Literacy Through Public Policy

Contemporaneous debates over ChatGPT are only the latest volleys in our collective struggle to teach information literacy to a generation weaned on iPads.

March 29, 2023

Celebrating Progress and Continuing Our Work Together

Shawn Healy, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, iCivics

A recent report importantly identifies a “perception gap” with regard to those with differing political views when it comes to how civics and history should be taught.

January 31, 2023

New Funding for Civics

Shawn Healy, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, iCivics

Year-end omnibus appropriations include a significant increase in funding for K–12 civic education, representing a substantial down payment on the historic civic mission of our K–12 schools, moving us closer to ensuring equitable access to high-quality civic learning opportunities for all students.

December 23, 2022

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.