A truly critical inquiry should identify unequal power relationships in society and offer students counter-narratives to transform unjust social relations.

Teaching young people to track congressional representatives and public issues through Congress can engage students with their government and advance their civic participation.

These key prompts can help social studies teachers and students gauge a compelling question’s rigor, relevance, and functionality.

The U.S. Constitution codifies a complex system of governmental checks and balances. But for all its innovation, our founding document fails to address the question of how to prosecute wrongdoing by personnel in the executive branch, including the president of the United States. 

Students will explore the nuances of the First Amendment through a recent Supreme Court ruling that reversed a California court’s ban on the sale of violent video games to minors.

Tracking the Senate race in the classroom can spark a lesson on the Senate's role in shaping legislation, treaties, and judicial nominations, and on why a party's control matters.

This list of noteworthy websites can be used to teach students about election issues and how to fact check campaign rhetoric, as well as the Electoral College and voting procedures.

This feature introduces three widely followed forecasting systems: prediction markets; projections based on economic indicators; and forecasts based on opinion polls.

Early in October 2016, the Keys election forecasting system was narrowly predicting the victory of a generic Republican candidate. Will this anything-but-generic presidential race vitiate the model?

If we want young people to build knowledge about democracy, then we must help students develop a rich understanding of elections.