Sometimes a letter is all it takes to meet and chat with a very important person. Just days after retiring from the nation's highest court, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor mingled with students at ...

As students return to school in the nation’s 250th year, a useful lesson in democracy may begin with something as small as a guinea pig. That’s what Pennsylvania educator Lori McGarry told us. A ...

The arrival of a guinea pig in the classroom taught 6- and 7-year-olds an important lesson about civic engagement.

To start with the conclusion, Nobel Prizes do appear on entrance exams. However, the examples I was able to clearly confirm ...

Indiana teacher Jared Kempton saw students stop caring about learning. He found a way to reinforce core classes about topics like science and civics that also empowers students.

Bayer’s Monsanto unit stood before a Missouri judge on Monday and asked him to approve a $7.25 billion settlement of roughly 65,000 lawsuits claiming its Roundup weed killer causes cancer. Judge ...

Oak Ridge native Chris Jones shares his journey from studying nuclear engineering to becoming a heart surgeon and writing a new book.

A panel discussion on Virginia’s proposed marriage equality amendment. Virginians will vote on a proposed amendment that ...

On World Teachers’ Day, 5 October, we remember the teachers who taught us more than what was in the syllabus — the ones who ...

Blich High School in Ramat Gan, whose mock votes anticipated Israel’s 1977 and 1992 political shifts, gave Yashar! 32.2%, Beyachad 22.4% and Likud 15.5% after senior politicians spent days campaigning ...

Ahead of the election, the Southern California News Group compiled a list of questions to pose to the candidates vying to ...

Media literacy has become deeply entwined in students’ civic skills, according to Derrick Johnson, a 21-year-veteran Advanced Placement U.S. Government, Constitutional Law, Criminology, and Debate ...