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.

[2026-04-23] 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).