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

Civics in the Spotlight Throughout Spring State Legislative Sessions

Shawn Healy, Senior Director, Policy and Advocacy, iCivics

This spring, the CivxNow policy team tracked nearly 90 bills in 34 state legislatures pertaining to civic education.

June 23, 2021

Spotlight on Civics in Spring State Legislative Sessions

CivxNow has been tracking proposed state legislation impacting civic education since January.

April 15, 2021

Momentum for Civics in the States

So far, in the 2021 state legislative session, more than 80 bills related to civic education have been introduced in 23 states. This is a significant increase in the number of civics bills introduced in the past several years and shows the momentum for strengthening and improving civic learning that

February 20, 2021

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.