Garima Desai, a We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution student from Fremont, California, has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Desai plans to study economics and the environment.

Center for Civic Education president Christopher R. Riano released a statement today on the results of the 2020 presidential election: "I am so excited to celebrate the bedrock constitutional principle of a peaceful transfer of power that the Center committed to just a few days ago!" said Riano. "Along with our sister organizations, I know we all wish the new president- and vice-president-elect the best, and I look forward to working with them to continue our critical work of ensuring that all Americans have access to a fundamental civic and constitutional education."

On the eve of the 2020 elections, the Center has joined iCivics, the Bill of Rights Institute, Facing History and Ourselves, Generation Citizen, and the Mikva Challenge to express our collective commitment to the democratic process and a bedrock principle of American representative democracy: the peaceful continuation or transfer of power after a free and fair election.

The recently released final evaluation report for the James Madison Legacy Project, by the Civic Education Research Lab at Georgetown University, demonstrates that the Center's teacher professional development in We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is successful in increasing teacher effectiveness and high-need students' attainment of civics and government standards. Learn more.