Evaluation and testing reflect what happens before the processes start, and also gauge district credibility.

There's a metric quietly climbing inside almost every K-12 central office in the country: purchase order volume.

A few months ago, an elementary interventionist told me her district had tightened student screen time limits. She was trying to ensure students completed their Tier 2 math intervention within the new 45-minute weekly cap. The intervention required logging in to one platform for lessons, then another for progress monitoring. Literacy ran on yet another. […]

States are confronting AI's potential downsides, particularly its implications for jobs, data privacy and student well-being.