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Kahoot!, the global learning and engagement platform and Apple Music Classical, the world’s leading classical music app, have partnered to launch a new collection of free, ready-to-play Kahoot! learning content that brings classical music to life for students, teachers and music lovers of all ages, wherever they are in the world.

Available now through a dedicated Apple Music Classical channel on Kahoot!, the new experiences invite learners to explore the fundamentals of classical music – from melody, rhythm, musical form and expression to the lives and works of composers including Beethoven, Bach and Tchaikovsky – through interactive challenges and listening activities that can be played in the classroom, at home or wherever learning happens. Learners can also continue their discovery by accessing full tracks on Apple Music, connecting each interactive experience with the music itself. Further content will continue to be added to the channel over time.
 
Alongside the new learning content, Kahoot! has curated a dedicated Apple Music playlist to support studying and focus, giving students another way to bring classical music into their learning routines.

The partnership brings together two platforms with significant global reach, combining Kahoot!’s innovative interactive learning and engagement platform with Apple Music Classical’s editorial expertise and world-leading classical music catalogue to create an accessible new route into classical music for young learners, educators and curious listeners worldwide.
 
Eilert Hanoa, CEO of Kahoot!, said:

“We’re excited to partner with Apple Music Classical and help introduce a new generation of learners to classical music using the learning platform they know and love. Together, we hope to spark curiosity, deepen understanding and make the timeless joy of classical music even more accessible for students and teachers around the world.”

Anjali Malhotra, Global Director of Apple Music Classical, said:

“Classical music is full of stories, ideas and emotions that speak across generations. With Kahoot!, we’re giving students and new listeners a fresh, playful way to start exploring that world – and to build the confidence to listen more closely.”

The Apple Music Classical channel on Kahoot! Is available now Kahoot’s curated playlist is available on Apple Music.

 
About Apple Music Classical

Apple Music Classical is the world’s leading classical music app. Launched in March 2023, Apple Music Classical makes it easier to find any recording in the world’s largest classical music catalog of over 6 million tracks with fully optimized search built specifically for classical, while offering the highest audio quality available. With high-resolution lossless and immersive Spatial Audio, listeners can experience classical favorites in a whole new way. Expertly curated playlists and insightful composer biographies as well as the addition of over 50 thousand booklets featuring in-depth liner notes, translations, plus the only global classical music chart and more, make Apple Music Classical the best place for classical music lovers. Apple Music subscribers can enjoy Apple Music Classical at no additional cost.

About Kahoot!

Kahoot!, the global learning and engagement platform company, is on a mission to make learning awesome by empowering everyone, children, students, and employees, to reach their full potential. Our platform enables individuals and organizations to easily create, share, and host engaging learning sessions. Since launching in 2013, Kahoot! has become a global leader, hosting hundreds of millions of sessions with over 14 billion cumulative participants across 200+ countries and regions. Clever, the global identity platform for K-12, is also part of Kahoot! Group, serving millions of educators, students, and schools every day. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, we also have offices in the US, UK, France, Finland, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Estonia, Denmark, Spain, and Poland.

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3P Learning today announced that its literacy program Reading Eggs was named a winner in the Primary Education category of the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2026.

Designed by experienced educators for students in Pre-K through 5th grade, Reading Eggs helps students make rapid reading progress by harnessing the power of the five essential pillars of the Science of Reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The program has earned ESSA Level III certification, and an independent study found that 93% of students improved by at least one reading level while using Reading Eggs.

According to one member of the awards’ panel of experienced education technology experts, “Reading Eggs provides Science of Reading compatible resources and engagement for your elementary readers. IT will love the integration in both Clever and Classlink.”

“Earning recognition from edtech leaders is enormously validating,” said Katy Pike, Chief Product Officer at 3P Learning. “This win reinvigorates our entire team to keep creating fun, impactful educational experiences for the 20 million children around the world who have learned from Reading Eggs.”

The Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence highlight the products and solutions making a meaningful difference to educators and learners. The Back to School awards recognize products and solutions that demonstrate versatility, value, innovation, and the ability to address real-world challenges across today’s education landscape.

“Our expert judges were particularly impressed by the quality, innovation and practical impact demonstrated by this year’s winners,” commented the awards’ editorial team. “Each winning product has shown its ability to support educators and learners in meaningful ways, and we’re delighted to recognise their achievements.”

The Tech & Learning Award of Excellence represents recognition from one of the industry’s leading education technology publications. Winners will be featured across Tech & Learning’s editorial and promotional channels, including the website and newsletter, providing further recognition of this achievement among the publication’s engaged education technology audience.

About Reading Eggs

The Reading Eggs suite is a multi-award-winning online literacy solution grounded in the Science of Reading. Combining Reading Eggs, Fast Phonics and Reading Eggspress, it provides a structured, multi-year literacy pathway from first steps through to fluent, independent reading and advanced comprehension. Short, focused and highly engaging lessons use explicit, systematic instruction to make learning to read easy and fun. Used by over 20 million children in 16,000 schools worldwide, Reading Eggs is proven to accelerate literacy growth in as little as 20 minutes a week. Reading Eggs is part of 3P Learning’s global suite of online learning programs. Learn more at readingeggs.com/schools/admin/.

About 3P Learning

3P Learning is a global leader in online education, offering a multi-award-winning suite of programs. Our solutions serve over 18,000 schools across 130+ countries, reaching millions of students. Built by experienced educators and backed by more than two decades of research, our classroom tools are designed to help every child discover better ways to learn.

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BOSTON — Sept. 24, 2026 — Newly released international assessment results paint a sobering picture of reading achievement in the United States and around the world. But new 2025–26 data from Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, offer an encouraging counterpoint: K–12 students using Lexia Core5 Reading and Lexia PowerUp Literacy with fidelity made substantial literacy progress, including students who began the school year multiple grade levels behind.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) newly released PISA 2025 results show that average reading performance among 15-year-olds across OECD countries fell 14 points between 2022 and 2025 — the largest decline between two PISA cycles ever recorded. Reading scores have fallen 28 points since 2015, which the OECD estimates is equivalent to approximately a year and a half of learning.

The United States reflects that troubling trajectory. U.S. reading performance declined 14 points from 2022 to 2025, falling to 490 — the lowest reading score recorded for the United States since it began participating in PISA in 2000. Compared with 2015, the percentage of U.S. 15-year-olds performing below PISA’s baseline Level 2 proficiency in reading has increased by seven percentage points.

Against that backdrop, Lexia’s 2025–26 data show significant literacy growth among students who used Core5 and PowerUp with fidelity. Among more than 1.1 million U.S. Pre-K–5 students who used Core5 with fidelity, the percentage working on skills at or above grade level increased from 42% at the beginning of the school year to 84% at the end.

Students who began the year furthest behind also made substantial progress. Among those who started two or more grade levels behind, 52% gained two or more grade levels in a single school year, while 38% ended the year on grade level or reached their grade-level benchmark.

The gains also extended to older students. Among 42,760 U.S. students in grades 6–12 who used PowerUp with fidelity, 57% covered three or more grade levels of skills in a single school year. By year-end, fewer than 7% were working on K–2 skills across all strands, and the number working on advanced comprehension skills was four times greater than at the beginning of the school year.

“The latest PISA results should be a call to action, but they should not lead us to conclude that declining reading achievement is inevitable,” said interim president of Lexia, Shawn Clark. “Our data show that students can make significant literacy gains when they receive evidence-based instruction grounded in the science of reading and targeted to what they need. That includes students who begin the school year multiple grade levels behind. We know much more today about how students learn to read and how to support older students who continue to struggle. The challenge is putting that knowledge into practice consistently and at scale.”

While building strong foundational reading skills in the early grades remains critical, the PISA findings reinforce the need to address literacy across the K–12 continuum. The 2025–26 Lexia results provide an encouraging indication of what is possible, showing progress from students building foundational reading skills in the elementary grades to older students working to close persistent literacy gaps. Additional findings from the Core5 and PowerUp annual results, including student progress, program usage and educator feedback, are available athttps://www.lexialearning.com/resources/infographics.

About the 2025–26 Data

The Core5 results are based on 1,114,652 U.S. Pre-K–5 students who used the program for at least 20 weeks, met weekly usage targets for at least half of those weeks, and either began using the program before the end of 2025 or met benchmark. The PowerUp results are based on 42,760 U.S. students in grades 6–12 who used the program for at least 20 weeks, met weekly usage targets for at least half of those weeks, and began using the program before the end of 2025. Both datasets were compiled and analyzed by the Lexia Research Team.

About Lexia

Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, is transforming literacy education, driving change in 1 of every 3 school districts across the United States. For more than 40 years, Lexia has been a thought leader in literacy education, delivering award-winning, research-based solutions grounded in the science of reading. With a full spectrum of offerings, including professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment tools, Lexia provides educators with Structured Literacy solutions that are proven effective and designed to drive meaningful literacy outcomes. By empowering educators with unparalleled ease of use and the knowledge and tools they need, Lexia helps more students unlock their potential to read, write, and speak with confidence. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

About Cambium Learning Group

Cambium Learning Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 educators and students. With an intentional collection of respected global brands, Cambium serves as a leader, helping millions of educators and students feel more seen, valued, and supported every day. In everything it does, the company focuses on the elements that are most essential to the success of education, delivering simpler, more certain solutions that make a meaningful difference right now. To learn more, visit www.cambiumlearning.com or follow Cambium on Facebook, LinkedIn, and X. The Cambium family of brands includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia, ExploreK12 and Time4Learning.

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Penda Learning Announces New Science Success Webinar

WHAT: A no-cost, 30-minute live webinar for science teachers, instructional coaches and curriculum leaders

WHEN: Monday, October 5 – Friday, October 9

REGISTER:  https://mailchi.mp/9134c4853677/vzbqtuxu5z

STUART, Fla., Sept. 23, 2026 – Helping students who are struggling in science—without adding to already-full teacher workloads—can be a challenge. During the week of October 5, Penda Learning will host a series of live, 30-minute “Science Success Informational Sessions” offering practical strategies for strengthening science intervention, supporting diverse learners and building standards mastery. Sessions will be offered at various days and times throughout the week.

The Science Success Informational Session will cover strategies for:

• Identifying and addressing science learning gaps earlier
• Supporting MTSS, remediation, acceleration and state assessment preparation
• Differentiating science instruction for individual students and groups
• How gamification can be an effective engagement tool
• Making science content more accessible for multilingual learners and students at different reading levels
• Giving teachers actionable information without creating additional grading or administrative work
• Building a more consistent approach to science support across classrooms and schools

Attendees will learn how Penda Learning puts many of these strategies into practice and see examples of accessibility tools, automated assignments and grading, student motivation features and standards-based reporting. They will also hear how schools are using Penda to complement classroom instruction.

To accommodate educators’ schedules, the webinar will be offered throughout the week of October 5:

Monday, October 5, 10–11 a.m. ET

Tuesday, October 6, 11 a.m. – noon ET

Wednesday, October 7, noon–1 p.m. ET

Thursday, October 8, 1–2 p.m. ET

Friday, October 9, 2–3 p.m. ET

The session content will be similar, so educators need only attend once during the week.

Attendees participating in the live sessions will receive a complimentary science planning resource, an exclusive attendee offer, and the option to request a customized walkthrough aligned to their state standards and school or district goals. 

For more information, visit https://mailchi.mp/9134c4853677/vzbqtuxu5z.

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Washington, D.C. (September 23, 2026) — CoSN — The Consortium for School Networking today released its 2026 Blaschke Report, Change Management for Education Technology: A Practical Guide for District Leaders, which examines how K-12 school districts can use change management to successfully adopt and sustain new technologies for teaching and learning. CoSN also released a companion School District Technology Change Management Toolkit that provides practical resources for implementing the report’s recommendations.

Authored by CoSN’s 2026 Blaschke Fellow, Jesse Davis, the report uses the ADKAR model to organize the change process around five outcomes: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement. Drawing on a summer-long qualitative research project, the report combines a review of change management literature with interviews conducted with education and technology leaders representing small, mid-sized, and large public school districts across the nation. Interview findings were organized around recurring themes and practical examples to develop recommendations for district leaders.

“School districts must continually adapt to evolving technologies, expectations and challenges,” said Keith Krueger, CEO of CoSN. “This year’s Blaschke Report provides district leaders with a practical framework for managing change in a way that supports educators, staff, students, and families while helping districts realize the full value of their technology investments.”

 

“Once again, I am very proud that contributions to the Blaschke Fund helped to underwrite another outstanding report for the K-12 education technology sector. Blaschke Fellow Jesse Davis’ report could not be timelier as it explains why change management must sit alongside project management in every major technology initiative. Furthermore, the accompanying toolkit developed by CoSN gives school leaders ready-to-use assessments, planning templates, communication tools, and structures so they can immediately begin implementing the concepts championed in the report,” said Kathy Hurley, CEO, Kathy Hurley Consulting & Former EVP, Pearson Foundation.

 

“Technology alone does not transform education; the people who use it do. Change management ensures that communities have the leadership, training, and support needed to thrive alongside new technologies. I’m honored to have written this year’s Blaschke Report and learned from education leaders advancing this work nationwide and helping their communities grow through technological change,” said Jesse Davis, author of the report and 2026 Blaschke Fellow.

The report’s central message is that districts must manage both the technical and human factors of technology adoption. By developing a repeatable change management practice, district leaders can reduce disruption, strengthen stakeholder trust, and increase the likelihood that new technology is accepted and sustained.

The report is accompanied by a change management toolkit that translates the report’s principles into action through adaptable resources, including a change readiness checklist, communication plan, and change champion guide. Together, the report and toolkit provide districts with a practical foundation for managing current initiatives and preparing for future changes.

About CoSN

CoSN, the world-class professional association for K-12 education technology leaders, stands at the forefront of education innovation. We are driven by a mission to equip current and aspiring K-12 education technology leaders, their teams, and school districts with the community, knowledge, and professional development they need to cultivate engaging learning environments. Our vision is rooted in a future where every learner reaches their unique potential, guided by our community. CoSN represents over 2,000 school districts and 14 million students and continues to grow as a powerful and influential voice in K-12 education. www.cosn.org

About The CoSN Blaschke Fellowship Fund

The Blaschke Fund was created by CoSN to support emerging leaders in education technology policy and advocacy. This memorial fund honors the late industry giant Charles Blaschke, who conducted pioneering research and analysis on the ever-changing U.S. education landscape for over 50 years. Through the fellowship, graduate students have the opportunity to develop research along with CoSN in topics related to digital equity, protecting privacy of education data, enabling accessibility, or other key topics. cosn.org/the-blaschke-fund/

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