News and Insights

Civic Education This Thanksgiving

Ace Parsi, Director of Coalition Engagement, iCivics

When we think about Thanksgiving in the K–12 context, it’s hard not to picture turkey hats, gratitude worksheets, and children’s books about the story of Thanksgiving. For the civic learning field, this season calls us to think more deeply and build young people’s capacity to develop skills to bridge divides.

November 20, 2025

Insights

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,

September 20, 2021

How Private Foundations Can Support Civic Education-A Spotlight on Jack Miller Family Foundation

Right now in Florida, three major civic education organizations, the Bill of Rights Institute (BRI), the Jack Miller Center (JMC), and the Ashbrook Center have pooled their resources in an attempt to provide professional development for civics and history teachers in one of the country’s largest states.

September 9, 2021

Civics in the News

November 2025

NPR spoke to a number of CivxNow partners in this piece about the $150 million in grants that just went to civic education.
Rick Hess discusses “real-world civic education” in this piece in Education Next.
Jeffrey Edward Green writes that civic education should challenge students in this Boston Globe piece.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch told a local Fox network that lack of civic education is our country’s biggest problem—and he’s following a trend of Justices who have written children’s books.