Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. More than seven out of 10 U.S. adults give a grade of C or ...

This summer, Delaware’s commitment to civic education took a significant leap forward through two impactful professional development programs: the long-standing Democracy Project Summer Institute and ...

America is celebrating its 250th birthday this year. At a moment when new technologies and other societal changes are ...

I greatly appreciated Timothy Messer-Kruse’s recent essay, “Civic Education is Back. It Shouldn’t Belong to Conservatives.” (The Chronicle Review, June 18). His history of civic education in American ...

Khoa Ta, then a sophomore at Owensboro High School from Daviess County in Western Kentucky, was elected as a student board member for the local board of education last May. It was a role Ta was eager ...

“I know of no country,” historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, “where there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.” In his 1830s work, Democracy in America, ...

Across the country, adults are wringing their hands about young people's civic disengagement. We worry about declining trust in democratic institutions, rising attraction to political strongmen, and a ...

I recently participated in a meeting of conservative election officials who periodically gather to discuss how they can improve trust in the elections they administer. We started with a round robin in ...