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The latest in the fight for civics education

Civics Education | November 24, 2025
The National Association of Scholars (NAS) and the Civics Alliance are delighted with, and enthusiastically endorse, Florida’s new K-12 History of Communism social studies standards. These standards provide an excellent framework to…
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A Woke Education
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Some schools deny that they teach critical race theory, but the College Preparatory School, California’s top-ranked independent high school,…
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August 16, 2021
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently published “The State of State Standards for Civics and U.S. History in…
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South Dakota Says “No” to Federal Programs Propagating Racial Grievance
August 12, 2021
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has just signed an Executive Order that directs the South Dakota Department of Education to refrain from…
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Anti-CRT Amendment Added to $3.5 Trillion Federal Spending Bill
August 11, 2021
The Civics Alliance and the National Association of Scholars are delighted to learn that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has successfully…
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Strides in Civics Education Reform
August 9, 2021
Only in the last months have civics reformers begun to fight back against action civics and Critical Race…
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The ‘Action Civics’ Bait-and-Switch
August 2, 2021
“We have not adequately defended our constitutional republic from within,” writes Thomas Griffith, adding his voice to a…
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Laws Against Critical Race Theory Are Only the First Step
July 30, 2021
Several state bills and laws working to ban critical race theory (CRT) have excited heavy breathing from the see-no-evil…
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Anti-Civics
July 30, 2021
Amid a national push for civics education, many would-be civics reformers hope to make race a central focus.…
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Training Students to Protest Doesn’t a Civics Education Make
July 20, 2021
If schools exist to train citizens—and not just future employees—then advocates of civics reform have a point: Many…
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