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2026 Impact Report: Our latest Impact Report, released in October, highlights Cognia and our global network’s growth and achievements from the 2025-2026 school year. The report explores how Cognia expanded its capacity by providing new services and tools and forging key partnerships to ensure all institutions can engage in sustainable, continuous improvement.
Cognia and EL Education Merger Creates a Coherent Ecosystem for School Improvement: Cognia announced its intent to merge with EL Education to add comprehensive curriculum resources and coaching in literacy and ELA to our improvement ecosystem.
Cognia Launches New Special Education Certification to Recognize Effective Special Education Programs: Cognia collaborated with other accrediting agencies to develop standards for high-quality special education that formed the foundation of our new Cognia Special Education Certification, which launched in August.
The Future of Assessment is Coherence: Cognia outlines a plan for the future of assessment: designing assessment and accountability systems that are intentionally aligned, instructionally useful, transparent, and connected to continuous improvement. The white paper examines how education leaders can move from disconnected assessment events to coherent improvement ecosystems that support sustained progress.
Two Different Early Learning Settings: What They Reveal About Learning Quality: In this Research & Insights Paper, Cognia compares early learning quality across standalone and school-based program settings, surfacing the distinct strengths each brings to young learners. Findings show that neither setting outperforms the other outright but that each has their own strengths. The analysis also identifies a shared gap in open-ended questioning and hands-on inquiry.
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