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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program expired at the end of September due to a disagreement between Senator Ernst (R-IA) and Senator Markey (D-MA), the chair and ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. They disagree about the status of “SBIR mills” within the…

The Regional Educational Labs (RELs) were created as part of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Over the six decades since then, their mission and impact have been frequently questioned. Over the years, including in 2025, efforts have emerged to eliminate them stemming from a variety of challenges related…

Recent staffing and budget cuts at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) threaten the nation’s capacity to generate and use high-quality education research—just when states, districts, and educators need it most to confront today’s urgent challenges. IES, the federal science agency within the U.S. Department of Education (ED), suffered the…

For decades, U.S. education has cycled through reform after reform, with too little to show for it. A new initiative will promise to boost reading. A grant funds an impactful but short-lived tutoring program. A district adopts the latest technology. Each aims to move the needle. Yet student achievement continues…

As students, teachers, and families settle into a new school year, a cohort of school system leaders are laying out bold visions for student improvement. The newly launched National Education R&D Advisory Committee represents traditional and charter school districts, in rural, suburban, and urban communities across the country. What binds…

In Spring 2025, FullScale (formerly The Learning Accelerator) identified a critical need in the sector: leaders need support navigating and making sense of AI. Leveraging learnings from two of our major projects, the Exponential Learning Initiative and the School Teams AI Collaborative, we surfaced a driving question: What would it…