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Teachers Learn the Art of Teaching Civics in a Hot-Button Age

October 7, 2025

“Civic education used to be a consensus issue, so taken for granted it verged on boring [but] civics education fell into neglect over the past two or three decades….Now teachers also must reckon with the current state of public life in the U.S.” Utah Valley University’s Center for Constitutional Studies, in partnership with the Quill Project at Pembroke College, Oxford, aims to equip K-12 teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to teach civics in the current climate.

Tagged With: civic education, civics, democracy, EdSurge, K-12

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