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Virginia Opens a Rare Statewide Assessment Opportunity

The first SOL rebid since 2005 creates openings for prime contractors and specialist partners, but implementation risk will shape the competition.

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Aug 5, 2026

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Aug 5, 2026

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Virginia Opens a Rare Statewide Assessment Opportunity

The first SOL rebid since 2005 creates openings for prime contractors and specialist partners, but implementation risk will shape the competition.

States Take Control of the School Safety Market

Aug 3, 2026

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6 min read

States Take Control of the School Safety Market

The Curve Weekly: The $93 million SSE program shifts the opportunity from district urgency to statewide procurement and governance.

Restraint Scrutiny Raises the Bar for K–12 Vendors

Jul 29, 2026

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10 min read

Restraint Scrutiny Raises the Bar for K–12 Vendors

New demand may emerge across behavioural support and compliance technology, but integration, privacy and liability will shape who benefits.

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Aug 3, 2026

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States Take Control of the School Safety Market

The Curve Weekly: The $93 million SSE program shifts the opportunity from district urgency to statewide procurement and governance.

Jul 28, 2026

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The Adequacy Funding Opportunity

The Curve Weekly: A major K–12 funding increase is concentrating near-term demand in districts with the largest resource gaps.

Jul 27, 2026

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6 min read

Legacy District Contracts Face a Market Test

The Curve Weekly: Growing scrutiny of noncompetitive renewals could create new openings for challengers and force incumbents to defend pricing, performance, and switching costs.

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Yale and the New Politics of Voluntary Compliance

Aug 5, 2026

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Yale and the New Politics of Voluntary Compliance

Voluntary compliance now carries political costs from Washington, state capitals, faculty bodies, and alumni networks at once.

ETS Bought ACT. The Testing Comeback Is Real at the Top and Absent in the Middle.

Jul 1, 2026

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ETS Bought ACT. The Testing Comeback Is Real at the Top and Absent in the Middle.

Eight Ivies reinstated. Ninety percent of colleges did not. Set your admissions policy on your own data, not the headlines.

Jun 26, 2026

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The Consolidation Cycle Is Beginning

Federal regulators are signaling easier mergers, credit markets are warning of institutional stress, and enrollment is entering structural decline.

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How Much Research Capacity Can Universities Afford to Cut?

Jul 15, 2026

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How Much Research Capacity Can Universities Afford to Cut?

Ph.D. admissions are falling across leading research institutions, forcing university leaders to decide which laboratories, teaching systems, and talent pipelines they can still afford to preserve.

The Same Metric Is Coming From Three Directions

Mar 18, 2026

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The Same Metric Is Coming From Three Directions

Program evaluation is being redefined by earnings. State and federal agendas may look fragmented, but they are aligning around labor market outcomes.

Mar 4, 2026

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Section 117 Is Not a Disclosure Problem

How a public transparency portal turned foreign funding disclosures into a system for identifying institutional outliers and triggering research security scrutiny.

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Medical Pipeline Strategy Meets Federal Admissions Scrutiny

Jul 29, 2026

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Medical Pipeline Strategy Meets Federal Admissions Scrutiny

Federal investigators are converting local selection practices into evidence about institutional control

The Ghost Student Problem Has Outgrown Financial Aid

Jul 22, 2026

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The Ghost Student Problem Has Outgrown Financial Aid

Organized fraud now moves through the full student lifecycle, forcing institutions to rethink enrollment integrity and executive oversight.

The New Fault Line in Graduate Enrollment

Jul 8, 2026

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The New Fault Line in Graduate Enrollment

Professional-degree classification now shapes which programs can finance students, hold yield, and protect net tuition.

Adoption and Usage

May 27, 2026

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8 min read

Chegg, Trust, and the New AI Divide

Why colleges are drawing harder lines between AI that supports learning and AI that substitutes for it

Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed customers did.

May 19, 2026

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Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed customers did.

Five targeted intelligence briefs, simultaneously published across all sides of the post-breach LMS market. Here is everything we said.

Instructure Needs Your Renewal More Than You Think

May 13, 2026

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Instructure Needs Your Renewal More Than You Think

The essential framework for negotiating your Canvas contract after a breach that has put KKR on defense, Congress on alert, and your institution in the strongest bargaining position in fifteen years

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Virginia Opens a Rare Statewide Assessment Opportunity

Most Recent Content View All

Virginia Opens a Rare Statewide Assessment Opportunity

States Take Control of the School Safety Market

Restraint Scrutiny Raises the Bar for K–12 Vendors

Premium Content

Weekly Briefs View All

States Take Control of the School Safety Market

The Adequacy Funding Opportunity

Legacy District Contracts Face a Market Test

Funding Pulse View All

Yale and the New Politics of Voluntary Compliance

ETS Bought ACT. The Testing Comeback Is Real at the Top and Absent in the Middle.

The Consolidation Cycle Is Beginning

Politics and Mandates View All

How Much Research Capacity Can Universities Afford to Cut?

The Same Metric Is Coming From Three Directions

Section 117 Is Not a Disclosure Problem

Procurement Dynamics View All

Medical Pipeline Strategy Meets Federal Admissions Scrutiny

The Ghost Student Problem Has Outgrown Financial Aid

The New Fault Line in Graduate Enrollment

Adoption and Usage View All

Chegg, Trust, and the New AI Divide

Instructure read it and didn't respond. Their higher ed customers did.

Instructure Needs Your Renewal More Than You Think

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