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 ...

Amid rising political violence, the need for nonpartisan civic education has never been clearer. Yet saying, “civic thought” or “civic life and leadership” now reads conservative. Should it? With the ...

Shortly before the 4 th of July, I wrote about the need for a “post-BS” education that focuses far less on celebrating activism and far more on the duties of citizenship and cultivating an ...

USCIS implements 2025 Naturalization Civics Test for N-400 filings on Oct. 20, 2025. Test expands question bank to 128 and raises pass mark to 12 correct answers. Applicants filing before Oct. 20 keep ...

Mr. Traub is an author and journalist. He is writing a book on civic education. In September the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a new, harder version of the civics test immigrants ...

Civics is not about boosting national pride or fueling shame. It should ask students to stop, think, and argue — and appreciate how others might differ. Jeffrey Edward Green is professor of political ...

・The new report from the James G. Martin Center argues there is a significant gap in civics education at the higher education level. ・The report calls for mandatory civics education, emphasizing its ...

Civics is generally taught in schools from kindergarten through high school; however, many factors, including fewer civics teachers and the topic now becoming controversial, have led to public schools ...

A recent Gallup poll revealed that only 45 percent of young people are very proud or extremely proud to be an American. Other polling indicates 40 percent of college students believe their college ...

The Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville was established three years ago during a time when national discussions centered on critical race theory and "wokeism," in ...