News and Insights

Teaching by Doing: Why Students Are Choosing Civic Seals

Mike Dean, Director, Minnesota Programs, iCivics

As noted when this year’s state legislative sessions were wrapping up, states have been answering the call for stronger civics in this 250th year, many through civic seals. This was particularly true in Montana, where the Seal of Civics Literacy came as a result of the state’s 250th commission working

August 26, 2026

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,

September 20, 2021

Civics in the News

August 2026

James Traub looks into Texas’ move toward a classical model of teaching social studies and history in this op-ed in The New York Times.
Sheria McRae, CEO of Foundation Academies, makes the case for place-based history and helping students see themselves in history in this piece in District Administration.
This summer, a group of 98 high school students took the civic act of creating a framework for how AI should be used in schools, according to this story in Education Week.
Cal Matters says that allowing kids to vote before they are 18 won’t matter if they aren’t taught how to vote.