People and Institutions

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (817+ words) The Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville will offer a new major this fall its director hopes will instill in students “lives of thoughtful citizenship.” The major in Civic and Constitutional Thought, which just received…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (459+ words) Education Secretary Linda McMahon has asked every U.S. college and university to publish, before the end of 2026, a statement explaining how it will restore public trust through stronger commitments to academic rigor, free speech, intellectual pluralism, affordability, research integrity, and national…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (503+ words) Published July 30, 2026 Wyoming’s We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, a civic education program at the University of Wyoming, will receive $90,000 per year for five years for a total of $450,000 from the W.R. Coe Endowment. We the People is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (184+ words) Friday, July 17, 2026 78° Today's Paper JAMM AQUINO / 2017 Marchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa proceed toward Dole Street during a demonstration organized by the Hawaii J20 Resistance on Jan. 20, 2017. New University of Hawaii president, Wendy Hensel, claims to champion “free inquiry…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (470+ words) Waltham Public Schools won a $60,000 Civics Teaching and Learning Grant from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which will fund new civics programming over the next two years. The award, announced just before the end of the school…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (379+ words) Just one student is reportedly enrolled at a new West Virginia University center designed to push back on "woke" ideology ahead of its opening this fall. "I'm not happy about it," Democratic state lawmaker John Williams told West Virginia Watch....

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (109+ words) For years, college students from around the state, specifically Ohio State, have fought back against the GOP-created higher education reform. Students say they want real education, not what Ohio State student Sabrina Estevez calls propaganda. “I think there is a…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (80+ words) NEW YORK, July 8, 2026 The Civic Education for Democratic Life Program Aims to Strengthen Community-Engaged Projects in US Colleges and Universities ACLS and the Luce Foundation share deep concern about the increase in political polarization nation-wide and in public skepticism about…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (919+ words) The Spectator Australia The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools William Dalrymple says that children ‘don’t learn’ about the British Empire at school. It is an ‘elephant in the room’, he claimed on the Green party…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (596+ words) EASTHAMPTON — The City Council has approved a $65.3 million budget for fiscal year 2027 that relies on a $6.9 million Proposition 2½ override approved by voters last month, but cuts will still need to be made including layoffs for a handful of school employees....