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Hamilton and Ace Parsi  \nPublic schools in the United States are responsible for helping to ensure that graduates are prepared to succeed and thrive in college, in the workplace, and in their broader lives. In addition to these significant responsibilities, schools have recently been charged with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the legacy of systemic racism, widespread mistrust of scientific evidence, and other societal challenges. As a means of addressing all of these outcomes and challenges, scholars and educators are increasingly calling upon schools to prioritize civic learning and are emphasizing the need for broader policies and supports that will encourage and enable this prioritization. Efforts to inculcate civic learning, as defined below, could provide one of the best safeguards against a possible collapse of civic norms and institutions.  \nOne important set of supports for these efforts involves expanding and improving approaches to measurement of civic learning opportunities and outcomes. To help advance research and development in this area, Educating for American Democracy (EAD) partnered with ETS on a symposium held in July 2021 to take stock of what we know and to provide guidance for future research, policy, and practice. We hope to continue the conversation by issuing this research note. We start by providing some brief background about the civic learning landscape, EAD, and the symposium. We then discuss the role that assessment can play in promoting civic learning, summarize some key lessons from the symposium, discuss areas that are particularly ripe for additional evidence gathering, and suggest some short-term actions for the field. This research note should be useful to educators, policymakers, researchers, funders, and others who are committed to helping America’s schools promote civic learning and democratic engagement.  \nBackground  \nFor decades, public kindergarten through 12th grade (K–12) education policies, including state assessment and accountability systems, have encouraged an emphasis on English language arts, mathematics, and science (Hansen et al., 2018; Koretz, 2009) . Although high levels of performance in these subjects are obviously crucial for ensuring student success, recent events such as the ones mentioned earlier illustrate the role that an informed and democratically engaged populace plays in protecting and our advancing society. Efforts to involve Americans in countering the pandemic and promoting racial equity, for instance, have run up against partisanship, the spread of misinformation, low levels of trust in scientists, and lack of understanding of the responsibilities of citizenship (Kavanagh et al., 2020; Lee et al., 2021) . Tackling these issues will require an understanding of not only how civic learning promotes individuals’ life prospectsand economic mobility, but also how it can uplift communities and the nation by building a generation of people who can engage in community problemsolving, work across differences, and understand how to leverage political and civil institutions to improve communities and lives.  \nDespite the common association of the word “civics”with the knowledge students develop in courses on government, scholars and advocates have recently put forth broader definitions that are relevant to the challenges we currently face. The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies defined civic learning as “the study of how people participate in governing society”(National Council for the Social Studies [NCSS], n.d., p. 31), and UCLA’s Leveraging Equity and Access in Democratic Education (LEADE)  \n2  \ninitiative defined it as “a process through which young people develop the knowledge, skills, and commitments to interact effectively with fellow community members to address sh","cbCaikyucntXS4dq","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikyucntXS4dq","pdf",529559,"English","# Background\n## Civic learning definitions and competency aims\n## The EAD initiative and roadmap approach\n## Design challenges and integrated civic-histories teaching\n# Symposium overview\n## Measurement of civic learning opportunities and outcomes\n## Assessment’s role in promoting civic learning\n# Key lessons and next steps\n## Evidence-gathering priorities\n## Short-term actions for the field","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the research note address regarding U.S. public schools?\",\"answer\":\"It addresses how schools must respond to major societal challenges while strengthening civic learning to help protect civic norms and institutions.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the note define civic learning?\",\"answer\":\"It cites broader definitions, including participation in governing society (C3 Framework) and processes where young people develop knowledge, skills, and commitments to address shared community problems (LEADE).\"},{\"question\":\"Why is assessment emphasized for civic learning?\",\"answer\":\"The note argues that expanding and improving measurement approaches for civic learning opportunities and outcomes can support research, policy, and practice to promote civic learning and democratic engagement.\"}]","Monitoring Civic Learning Opportunities and Outcomes - Lessons From a Symposium Sponsored by ETS and Educating for American Democracy | PDF",1792048316,48]