Log — Achievement Communication KB

Append-only record of operations on this KB. Entries start with ## [YYYY-MM-DD] <op> | <summary> for easy grep/parsing.

Operations: init, ingest, query, lint, discover, schema-update.

[2026-04-21] init | KB scaffold created

[2026-04-23] discover | Seeded cold-start; 5 candidates proposed and approved

  1. Learning Heroes × Gallup — B-flation (2023)
  2. Chalkbeat — Illinois 2025 cut-score change
  3. Smarter Balanced × National PTA — parent reporting research index
  4. NGLC — Portrait of a Graduate in Practice
  5. ACT WorkKeys / NCRC toolkit (+ Arkansas DESE adopter page)

[2026-04-23] ingest | 5 sources → 7 entities, 3 concepts

[2026-04-23] discover | Gap-driven from existing follow-ups; 5 candidates proposed and approved

  1. SBAC × PTA 2022 Findings From Virtual Focus Groups Among Parents (the actual artifact behind the existing index page)
  2. NWEA MAP Growth family-facing materials (vendor coverage gap)
  3. SpacesEDU (PoG tooling gap)
  4. ACT Work Ready Communities adopter landscape (NCRC beyond Arkansas)
  5. HCM Strategists × Learning Heroes report-card redesign case study

[2026-04-23] ingest | 5 sources → 4 new entities, 2 source replacements

Notable cross-source pattern surfaced (worth flagging here, not buried on a page): Edge Research conducted both the SBAC × PTA 2022 focus groups and the HCM/Learning Heroes multi-state report-card research — captured as its own entity page and noted in the overview tensions.

[2026-04-23] lint | Light voice-rule pass; overview reads current

  • Removed SPEC-forbidden forwarding to schema.md open-question numbers (#1, #3, #7) from SBAC×PTA and NWEA source pages.
  • Softened "in the wiki" / "in this KB" / "on this KB's question" self-references across ACT, Edge Research, HCM, SpacesEDU, and the WRC-adopters + HCM case-study sources.
  • Dropped "Discover" vocabulary from the SpacesEDU entity page ("surfaced during Discover" → "identified but not yet profiled").
  • Cleaned a stale follow-up on the NGLC PoG-in-Practice source that still listed SpacesEDU as a not-yet-ingested adjacent vendor.
  • No contradictions, orphans, or stale analyses surfaced; overview.md still matches current wiki state (no refresh needed).

[2026-04-29] assets | First image backfill — 2 demo-worthy visuals

  • wiki/assets/chalkbeat-illinois-cut-scores-2025/proficiency-ela.jpg — CPS retrospective ELA proficiency chart (the article's load-bearing visual). Embedded in Chalkbeat source page and cross-linked from proficiency bands and cut scores where the Illinois case is discussed.
  • wiki/assets/nglc-portrait-graduate-practice/graduate-profiles-comparison.png — five-district PoG framework graphics shown side-by-side. Embedded in NGLC source page and cross-linked from Portrait of a Graduate concept.
  • Bar applied: each image carries data or visual range that prose can't compactly convey. Vendor product pages (NWEA, SpacesEDU, ACT) were skipped on this pass — their public pages serve lazy-loaded SVG placeholders rather than real assets, and the images we want (NCRC tier ladder, NWEA family report, SpacesEDU UI) need a different fetch path.

[2026-05-13] lint | Voice-rule cleanup pass — scrubbed KB self-reference

Comprehensive pass removing in-text self-reference, meta section headers, and Perspective-internal terminology that had accumulated across the wiki.

  • Removed "the wiki", "this KB", "the wiki's evidence base" body phrases from overview.md, momentum-and-sentiment.md, national-pta.md, tony-sanders.md, and several source pages.
  • Renamed ## Significance sections (9 pages) and ## Why this matters (edge-research) to content-named headers — section titles now describe what the section is about, not its role in the wiki.
  • Reworded body lines that talked about wiki construction (e.g. "each could become its own entity page if a future source provides..." in nglc.md and nglc-portrait-graduate-practice.md) to describe the world instead.
  • Replaced Perspective-internal terms in body and follow-ups: "ingested" → "surveyed/covered"; "not yet profiled" → "worth investigating"; "sources ingested to date" → softened or dropped.
  • Renamed "What we know so far" → "The current landscape" and "What we don't know yet" → "Open questions" in overview.md.

Lint clean (0 orphans, 0 stale); graph unchanged (27 nodes, 96 edges).

[2026-05-13] people | First three person entries promoted from inline mentions

  • Promoted three individuals quoted in the Chalkbeat Illinois cut-score source to their own category: person entity pages: Tony Sanders, Robin Steans, Jessica Handy. No new source ingest — content reorganization only.
  • Backlinked the source page and the ISBE entity page so prior name-mentions now resolve to the person pages.
  • Added a ## People section to index.md between Entities and Concepts. Files still live under wiki/entities/; surfaced as a peer category for readers per the SPEC's Index rule and the new Person pages subsection (platform-level SPEC change, in git).
  • Promotion bar applied: each had a distinct, sourced position in the Illinois 2025 cut-score debate (Sanders defending; Steans on missing comparison data; Handy on longitudinal continuity). Other sources ingested to date name no individuals at that bar.

[2026-04-23] query | Momentum and sentiment across the field

  • Question: to what degree is there active momentum or interest in pursuing better solutions, and what sentiment shows up in the sources.
  • Filed as analysis page. Claim: activity is broad and recent across advocacy, vendor, state-agency, credentialing, and EdTech actors, but almost no source measures whether what it shipped changed parent comprehension.
  • Backlinks added from overview.md, perception-gap.md, and the HCM × Learning Heroes source page (where the measurement-gap pattern is clearest).