College freshmen in Ohio must take a civic literacy course, but professors are torn about its worth and question its effect on academic freedom.

Last school year, Massachusetts teacher Andrew Swan started to feel like the assignments he had long relied on to illustrate how government works for his students were falling short. In one, his 8th ...

As roughly 11,000 people celebrated the Fourth of July this year by officially becoming U.S. citizens, The Washington Post challenged readers to test their knowledge of America with a civics quiz.

More than 800,000 people each year take a 10-question civics test to try to become a U.S. citizen. A bill passed by the Iowa House and Senate would require students in grades nine-through-12 to pass a ...

The new civics education test that immigrants who apply for citizenship through naturalization after Dec. 1, 2020, must take orally is longer and more complicated than its previous version. It ...

On the campaign trail in May, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy provocatively proposed raising the voting age to 25 for Americans who have not had any kind of civic experience, such as ...