As someone serving Academic Benchmarks’ customers since 2008, I’ve witnessed a lot of changes in standards over the years. In the years before Common Core, we expected that states would change about 2...

“I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.” “Long Past?” inquired Scrooge . . . “No. Your past.”                   - “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens     It’s that time of year when classic songs, films...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with the idea that the only constant in life is change. Only fragments of his writings remain, one in which he says: Everything changes and nothing remains...

I love to DREAM!  Not the sleepy day-dreaming kind.  Data Rules Everything Around Me.  I love data and enjoy making sure a ‘story’ and its data match.  Lately, I have been talking with numerous people...

What is a crosswalk?   In linguistics, borrowing is the process by which a word from one language is adapted for use in another. The word that is borrowed is called a borrowing, a borrowed word, or a ...

Have you ever wondered how your state’s standards get from a pdf (or doc or html) on a state Department of Education website into Outcomes in Canvas or MasteryConnect? No? Right, probably not. And tha...

  In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (March 2024), the following standards are released.   Publish Type Subject Standards Document Adoption Year Implementation Year Publish Date Full DocumentScienceAlabama > Course of Study (COS) > S...

  In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (February 2024), the following standards are released.   Publish Type Subject Standards Document Adoption Year Implementation Year Publish Date Full Document Technology Canada > Ontario Curricu...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (February 2), the Search within Applied Collection/Filters option allows users to easily search only within applied parameters.     New Features   Search Within Applied Collection/Filters When aligning ...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (December 21), users can bulk-align or reject learning objects to predicted derivative standards adopted from national standards that are already aligned or rejected.     New Features   Derivative Standa...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (November 30), users can view all properties associated with a learning object to help inform alignment decisions.     New Features   Learning Object Properties Visibility   Users can view all properties...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (October 26), when selecting filter options for a learning object, filtering options for subsequent learning object categories in the list update dynamically based on the selected filters.     New Featur...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (September 28), users can manage Standard and Learning Object Collections from the dashboard. Additionally, users can enable alignment tags in Settings.     New Features   Manage Collections from Dashboa...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (July 20), new functionality allows users to perform wildcard searches and search for unique IDs and terms in all Elevate Standards Alignment search areas. Additionally, the expansion functionality for ali...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (June 22), when aligning by object, the Search Standards option allows users to easily search for a standard, and then align the standard. Additionally, users can filter standards by region, subject, and g...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (May 30), an indicator displays above new alignments and/or rejections.     New Feature   New Alignment Indicator   An indicator displays above new alignments and/or rejections. This update makes it easi...

In this Elevate Standards Alignment release (2023-03-30), users can align learning objects to academic standards publications.   New Feature   Align by Learning Object Users can align learning objects to academic standards publications. Users can...