As schools across the country experience book bans and attempts to limit the curriculum, in Texas one group led by the spiritual adviser to former President Donald Trump fought in the past year to ...

Civics is an antidote to the cynicism that reduces everything to power and to the nihilism that seeks only to subvert and tear down. At the dawn of a new year, administrators, professors, and students ...

Judeo-Christian principles — not as sectarian doctrine, but as the moral heritage — may be the key to restoring public trust ...

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the American public still contest the results of a free ...

The recent passing of President Jimmy Carter and the reflections attributed to him had me in deep thought about one of those accomplishments, the establishment of the Department of Education. So, when ...

In his recent piece in Education Next, my AEI colleague Frederick Hess offers a crucial corrective to the prevailing winds in civic education. He calls for a “post-BS civics” – one grounded not in ...

As an educator, researcher, and advocate for civic engagement, I am deeply alarmed by America’s dwindling civic literacy. This crisis poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy. Recent ...

Paul G. Summers is an attorney. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the attorney general of Tennessee. Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related ...

Philosophical inquiry in education is an interdisciplinary approach that encourages students to engage in reflective dialogue, question fundamental assumptions, and develop critical thinking skills.

iWhen my local school district recognized International Holocaust Remembrance Day last year, I imagined meaningful classroom activities would follow. But my daughters came home from middle school ...

In crafting its new college-ranking system, City Journal has made the unusual—but, we believe, wise—choice to reward institutions that host a School of Civic Thought on campus. But what are Schools of ...