The authors completed a national study of K-12 civics and history education in 2021, and after collaborating with over 300 teachers, practitioners, scholars, and students, released "Educating for American Democracy: Excellence in Civics and History for All Learners." The EAD report analyzed the current citizenship education landscape and deficits and proposed a strategy for reform. A second, crucial piece was the accompanying "Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy." The authors knew they should not attempt to recommend a national curriculum, given that states and districts make these choices in alignment with state-approved standards. But the authors thought state and other leaders could benefit from a content framework that laid out important themes alongside a coherent approach and pedagogy for addressing them, and hoped such a framework could aid their efforts to improve citizenship education. Four years after the EAD report and Roadmap were released, the authors see progress in promoting cross-ideological efforts to improve standards, curricula, and teaching in schools, with a number of districts aligning with the principles they had laid out and several states working to improve learning standards. That said, the deficit America faced in 2021 was enormous--and still is.