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North Carolina’s new $34.4 billion state budget, signed into law on July 7, 2026, introduced significant changes to school reading policies. Under Section 7.8 of the 2026 Appropriations Act, effective July 1, 2026, local school units must assess fourth- and fifth-grade students using valid…

To see a real return on edtech investment, districts must achieve high implementation fidelity. Research shows that programs implemented with fidelity and without major implementation issues can produce student outcomes that are two to three times greater than programs with poor…

The release of preliminary 2025-2026 Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) results shows encouraging statewide momentum. Under the Missouri School Improvement Program (MSIP 6), state assessment scores heavily influence a district’s Performance Standard rating. Here is a practical approach to guiding your professional learning communities from raw…

Written by Dr. Sandra Markowitz and Adriana Lazaro, Enterprise Customer Success Managers with Progress Learning. Dr. Sandra Markowitz is an experienced educator with 17 years in the field of Instructional Technology. Passionate about assistive technology, Universal Design for Learning, instructional strategies, and workflow solutions, Sandra brings innovative…

As math scores continue to struggle to recover after the interruptions to schooling from COVID, a wave of new legislative mandates across the country. Stagnant scores have caused some educators to start rethinking how math is taught, with some state education…

Just giving a shared test and calling it a common assessment can miss the purpose of a common assessment. Comparing results across campuses may not be accurate for several reasons, like the test being built or administered differently in each building. Or if two campuses report similar course…

Teachers often have plenty of data from the classroom, but they can be pressed for time. We know the pressure to use data daily is real, but if or when master schedules treat planning time as an afterthought, asking educators to log into another portal can feel disconnected…

At the beginning of the school year, district leaders set baselines. You administer a diagnostic or an initial benchmark to measure exactly where students are starting. But the critical question is what happens next: What are you doing between that initial baseline and the mid-year check? And more…

For years, personal finance was treated as an afterthought, often compressed into a high school economics or social studies semester or offered as a niche math course. But in recent years there has been a wave of bipartisan legislation across states, forcing them to move away…