I feel like I grew up watching Blossom, so it's kind of like having someone from my childhood
as a fellow
AP mom - I only know of a few people from my childhood who followed that
path, so this is valuable for me.
The policy solution that has garnered the most momentum to improve civics in recent years is a standard that requires high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam before graduation.6 According to this analysis, 17 states have taken this
path.7 Yet, critics of a mandatory civics exam argue that the citizenship test does nothing to measure comprehension of the material8 and creates an additional barrier to high school graduation.9 Other states have adopted civics
as a requirement for high school graduation, provided teachers with detailed civics curricula, offered community service
as a graduation requirement, and increased the availability of Advance Placement (
AP) U.S. government classes.10