Civic Education and the Urgency of Now: Business Community CSD One-Pager

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Utilize our one-pager for the business community to share calls to action for business leaders to support civic and economic strength through the passage of the Civics Secures Democracy Act.

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2018 Edelman Trust Barometer

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An 18 year retrospective on the public’s trust in institutions showing that, in only one year, American’s faith in government, business, nongovernmental organizations, and the free press plummeted 37%.

A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future

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A national call to action to reinvest in and reimage civic learning.

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All Together Now

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Collaboration and innovation for youth engagement including a look at civic action, misinformation, and the shared responsibility of in and out of school influences on civic learning. Showing that only 22% of 18-24 year olds who voted correctly answered two factual questions (out of two) about the candidates’ positions on the issues they cared about most.

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Americans’ Civics Knowledge Increases but still has a Long Way to Go

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Only 39% of American adults can name the three branches of government, and the link between civics classes and civic knowledge.

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An Equitable Approach to Strengthening Civic Education

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An exploration of the crossroads of civic education and educational equity in the interest of promoting more honest, inclusive, and effective approaches to solving civic learning problems.

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Assessing Civic Competency and Engagement in Higher Education

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Research background, frameworks, and directions for next-generation assessment.

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Beyond the Ballot

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A look at civic education and media literacy as a national security imperative.

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Building Blocks for Learning

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A framework from comprehensive student development in regards to how they acquire the skills and mindsets for learning, which skills need to be built in children for school success, can they be taught, and how growing up with adversity impact the acquisition of these critical skills.

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Cause and Effect

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Explore the current state of civics and effect that declining civic education has had on our constitutional democracy.

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