The Basics Simply put, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is a set of high-quality educational standards for K-12 math and English language arts/literacy (ELA). The standards include learning goals which list what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each school year. The Common Core standards were created Continue reading

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), essentially constitutes a wholesale rewrite of the largely unpopular No Child Left Behind Act. The new law goes into full effect beginning in the 2017-18 school year. While many in the education sector might be aware of the broad details of ESSA (i.e. that it promotes a more “well Continue reading

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law on December 10, 2015 and largely replaced the No Child Left Behind Act as well as introduced some big changes to the role of the federal government in U.S. educational policy. ESSA takes full effect in the 2017-18 school year. Here are the key elements Continue reading

In the increasingly high-tech world of document management, both large and small PowerSchool school districts are experiencing the pain-points inherent with “information overload”. They just have too many documents stored in too many places and trying to locate a specific record is challenging at best and impossible at worst. One of the most common contributors Continue reading

Everyone who uses a computer stores information, whether they initiate the “save” command or the system does it for them. There are massive amounts of information from multiple users and departments flowing into different storage silos every moment of every day in most PowerSchool school districts. When all that content is stored without adequate metadata Continue reading