Data from our national survey of high school civics teachers shows that many understand the importance of teaching information literacy, but need support to do so.
By: Jessica Gingold, Harvard Graduate School of Education
A new CIRCLE report highlights this promising approach to providing an effective, action-oriented civic education to students.
A new CIRCLE analysis explores the gender gaps in civic engagement, challenges to improving participation among young women, and implications for future work.
Our analysis shows that these promising pedagogical practices work, but racial and socioeconomic gaps in civic knowledge remain
A new CIRCLE paper explores the potential of innovative ways of measuring civic skills and knowledge.
Our analysis finds that civic education improves engagement and does not lead to partisanship or influence support for a candidate.
A new working paper summarizes the results of our evaluation of iCivics' latest teaching module.
As a group, states that strengthened their civic standards have higher youth turnout, though the biggest shift was between 2004 and 2008