“America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from ...

One of the most promising developments in higher education today is the rise of civic-education colleges within public universities, particularly in red states. Notable examples include the School of ...

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It’s 1779. Having broken from Britain, the American colonists are halfway through the bloody crucible of revolution and war.

On May 14, AEI’s third annual Future of the American University Conference opened with introductory remarks by AEI’s Benjamin Storey. Pointing toward past dissipated civic initiatives, he asked how ...

Charlie Kirk's assassination at Utah Valley University has sparked renewed interest in conservative civics education as ...

With 2024 being a major election year, it is imperative that citizens of all ages have a solid understanding of how to exercise the right to vote and engage in civic duties. As the AFRO works to cover ...

Gen Z was expected to be more instrumental in the 2024 presidential election than they turned out to be. Despite their active engagement in political discourse online, only 42% turned out to vote, ...

Civic education is experiencing a renaissance on American college campuses, with new initiatives and even whole academic units dedicated to it cropping up across the country. How should we understand ...

To help social studies teachers prepare students for civic life after high school, the Nebraska Department of Education has come up with a draft definition of “civic readiness.” Under the definition, ...

The debate over the future of American education has become a proxy war over the very meaning of democracy. The evisceration ...