Restoring Civics Education in All 50 States

Restoring Civics Education in All 50 States

Nonpartisan agreement exists among policymakers, educators, and parents that more K–12 students should be proficient in civics before they graduate high school. Researchers at the Brookings Institution write that “civic learning is on the margins of young people’s school experience.”REF The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute, which researches and advocates civics instruction in K–12 schools, bemoans the condition of civics teaching today in a report …