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

Majority of Americans See K-12 Civic Education as the Best Solution

This summer, pollster and messaging expert Frank Luntz conducted a survey of 1,000 adults 18 and older to find out what Americans from all political stripes think could help heal this country. What he found can be boiled down to two words: “better civics.”

September 29, 2020

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.