A story we overlooked - Vantage cancels contract in billing dispute but keeps working with state, then its testing system gets overloaded and fails. Bad news for Vantage. Lessons Learned: No good deed goes unpunished? Nobody wins but the lawyers?   more »

State rules governing the adoption of instructional resources favor textbooks. As such, they constitute one of the most important barriers to entry facing school improvement providers who deliver their content by other means. Changing the rules in California will go a long way to level a playing field that artificially favors a handful of huge publishers.   more »