The nation’s report card is poised to expand its assessment of American students’ civics knowledge, potentially creating the nation’s first state-by-state results on a topic with strong bipartisan ...

When the blueprint for the nation’s report card on civics was last updated, in 1996, there was no social media, no super PACs in campaign finance, and no federal Department of Homeland Security. Now, ...

I recently had the opportunity to attend a U.S. naturalization ceremony. This ceremony is the culmination of the lengthy legal immigration process, during which the participants officially become U.S.

As the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rolled out a revised civics test this week for aspiring Americans, The Washington Post tested readers with some of the tougher new questions. More than ...

Students who studied the U.S. Constitution “a lot” outperformed those who studied it less or not at all on the 2022 NAEP civics exam. (iStock) Perspective by Valerie Strauss The release this month of ...

As Civic Learning Week kicks off, Purdue University marks a milestone for its Civics Literacy undergraduate degree requirement. Since its adoption for fall 2021, the Purdue civics knowledge test has ...

Eighth-grade U.S. history and civics test scores dropped last year to their lowest levels ever recorded by the Department of Education. These are just the latest declines among subjects tested since ...

One morning this January, Yulia Wardani stepped into a small office in downtown Newark to change her identity. Across the desk was an officer of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who ...