Dec 2025: Our 2025 Impact: Celebrating Wins and Planning the Road Ahead

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DECEMBER 2025

News From the Front Lines of Civic Education

Crucial March Toward Stronger Civic Education Continued in 2025

This year, we continued our crucial march to strengthen K–12 civic learning from coast to coast.

Through the strength of our coalition, which now stands at over 400 members, we celebrated educators, elevated teacher voices in Washington, D.C., and ensured civic learning is central to the planning for the nation’s 250th.

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Plan Your Civic Learning Week Involvement

Use the Organization/Influencer Toolkit to access resources to help you plan and communicate your participation in Civic Learning Week 2026.

The toolkit includes planning resources, tips for engaging youth voice, sample social media posts, graphic assets, sample emails and press materials, and more.

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Research Roundup: Hoover Institution Completes Civic Learning Landscape Analysis

Last month, the Hoover Institution published a comprehensive landscape analysis of The American Civic Education System.
 
The report documents that the marginalization of civic learning is generational and that efforts to scale solutions often lack coherence. Key observations stress that political polarization must be mitigated, and that educators require more in-person professional development.
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On the Road

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State Policy Lead Andrea Benites and Policy Associate Sydney Moore attended the 105th National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

The conference featured a powerful Hill Day where the team supported teachers in advocating for increased investment in civics education on Capitol Hill. Energizing keynote sessions left a lasting impression on the CivxNow team.

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In the News

Winter Break reading:

  • NPR takes a look at a long-running moot court contest in NYC that teaches high school students how government works.
  • iCivics CEO Louise Dubé and Chief Education Officer Emma Humphries penned a piece for AllSides about why we must continue to teach hard topics.
  • James Traub asks if we could pass the updated naturalization civics test in this op-ed in The New York Times.
  • Wisconsin Watch explains how a retiree’s passion for local office sparked a statewide high school civics contest.

New Members

CivxNow continues to grow, now officially standing at more than 400 member organizations! The latest additions are: We remain deeply appreciative of member efforts and all that we accomplish together. Our goal is to aggregate and activate large networks of support to expand and re-imagine civic education as a force for civic strength. To our members, thank you for your partnership. If your organization is interested in joining CivxNow or in learning more, please contact us at CivxNow@icivics.org.

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