What the National Data Suggests — and What Only Your Community Can Tell You Something has shifted in American education, and school administrators are feeling it from every direction, in school board meetings, in parent emails, in meetings with teachers who sense that something is not working. The data is now hard to ignore. National Assessment of Educational Progress scores remain below pre-pandemic 2019 levels in every tested grade and subject. PISA scores declined broadly

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Here’s a Story of One Company That Created Theirs by Accident In 1913, three brothers in Cleveland had a business problem: they needed a reason for customers to order more often. Arthur, Leo, and Emanuel Friedman had founded the Chemical Rubber Company a decade earlier, operating out of their father's clothing store. They sold rubber laboratory aprons, then tubing, stoppers, gloves, everything a chemistry department needed to protect itself from itself. They had more than 3,5