Education in the United States is entering a new era. With Texas HB 8 banning benchmark testing and STAAR practice tests, Louisiana’s LEAP 360 embedding assessments into curriculum, and Houston ISD’s NES model making daily checks central to instruction, education reform is moving away from compliance-driven testing.
Instead, schools are embracing real data-driven instruction—data that comes from the classroom, during instruction, and is used immediately to adjust teaching. When done well, this shift is not just policy—it produces measurable improvements in student achievement.
