State of Civics & Our Republic
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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%.
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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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Beyond the Ballot
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A look at civic education and media literacy as a national security imperative.
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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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Civics is the Solution to What Ails Our Democracy
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A bipartisan majority of Americans see civic education as the most meaningful solution to strengthen our country, democracy, and national common identity.
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College, Career & Civic Life C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards
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Guidance for enhancing the rigors of K-12 civics, economics, geography, and history.
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Democracy for Some
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Findings on civic opportunity gap in high school and recommendations for ways policymakers and educators can address it.. How student’s race and academic track, and a school’s average socioeconomic status determines the availability of school-based civic learning opportunities that promote voting and broader forms of civic engagement.
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Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
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Effective 21st century civic learning is incumbent upon media literacy skills with more than 80% of middle schoolers studied unable to differentiate between a real news story and an advertisement.
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Fault Lines in Our Democracy
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A look at civic knowledge, voting behavior, and civic engagement in the United States and how high schools can play a positive role by boosting graduation rates, increasing knowledge of civic issues, expanding opportunities for students to participate in civic activities, and encourage voter registration.
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Guardian of Democracy: The Civic Mission of Schools
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Investing in civic learning has real world outcomes that strengthen American democracy.
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Public Trust in Government Remains Near Historic Lows as Partisan Attitudes Shift
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Pew Research Center discovers distrust of government remain at record levels with over a quarter of the public having little or no confidence in the country’s future.
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Strengthening Democracy with a Modern Civics Education
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This report provides an updated state-by-state analysis of civics education requirements and civic engagement measures.
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Students’ Civic Online Reasoning
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A national portrait of the current dire state of media literacy and whether first-time voters are prepared to go online and discern fact from fiction.
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Teaching Civics in a Time of Partisan Polarization
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Every generation must be deliberately educated how to be active and responsible citizens, but the challenges differ as the context evolves, and today’s students and teachers of civics face special barriers as well as unusual opportunities when it comes to learning and teaching civics in our polarized times.
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The 2018 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well are American Students Learning?
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A portrait of civics education in the United States including student performance, state policies, teacher characteristics, and student survey results as windows into students’ experiences.
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The Civic Mission of Schools
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Why schools are vital venues for civic education, the importance of schools focuses on civic education at this time, six approaches to civic education, and recommendations for schools, districts, policymakers, higher education, researchers, and funders
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The Danger of Deconsolidation: The Democratic Disconnect
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There is growing evidence that young Americans are losing faith in wester democracy and in their government with 24% of millennials considering democracy to be a “bad” or “very bad” way of running a country.
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The Democracy Project: Reversing a Crisis of Confidence
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A report from the George W. Bush Institute in collaboration with the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and Freedom House showing that - even in our polarized nation - 89% of Americans agree that we need more civic education in our schools.
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The Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
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51st annual PDK Poll showing 97% of American say civics should be taught, including 81% of teachers who say students should be required to take a civics class.
