Education has long been regarded as a predicator for a strong understanding of civics, implying that civic participation will increase with more education. In this work, we model the relationship between schooling and a broad range of civic outcomes by using data from the National Civic Engagement Survey (NCES I) of Spring, 2002. By using Child labor laws as instruments and controlling for a number of factors such as age, gender, and occupation status, we estimated the contribution education makes in promoting civic participation. Our results suggest that education has a positive impact on voting, volunteering, and citizens’ group participation.