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Civic Engagement in the Digital Age

Mar 16, 2012 |

The Education Commission for the States released an interesting report (PDF) on how civic engagement is changing as the first generation of digital natives comes of...

Teens Against Domestic Abuse is first winner of the iCivics Impact Grant

Jul 06, 2011 |

Civic Action

The ultimate measure of civic education’s success is whether young people become active participants in democracy and civic society. On April 1, 2011, iCivics launched a bold experiment to bridge from our online civics games to offline civic...

Sandra Day O'Connor Gives Modern Civics Lesson

Apr 13, 2011 |

Civic Action, Civic Education, Events, Games, Justice O'Connor

By Morgan Chesky, KVUE News Austin

For students at Fulmore Middle School in South Austin, it is a 21^stcentury take on a 200-year-old document. It is called iCivics, a computer program designed to break educational barriers, created by the woman who broke a few of her...

iCivics named to ALSC's Great Websites for Kids

Jan 19, 2011 |

Civic Action, Civic Education, Games

By Laura Schulte-Cooper, American Library Association

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has added more recommended websites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites),...

Mayor's Education Task Force Lists Reforms

Jan 13, 2011 |

Civic Action, Civic Education

By Lewis Kamb, The News Tribune

Fulfilling a campaign promise to make education a city government priority, Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland joined members of her hand-chosen task force this week to unveil an initial round of recommendations aimed at improving the city’s public...

Gaming for Good

Dec 27, 2010 |

Civic Action, Civic Education, Games

By Marcy Murninghan, The Murninghan Post

If you’re like many Americans, you spent part of your Christmas holiday playing with your Wii, Xbox360, PlayStation 3, or Nintendo—or know someone who did.