As New Mexico takes steps to do for math education what it has done for reading, Santa Fe Public Schools is taking a leap. The district is an early adopter of the state’s push to remake math instruction — an effort short of the reforms the state has mandated in reading, but one that still requires districts to overhaul their approach to math by the start of next school year.

School systems invest significant time and resources in selecting high-quality instructional materials as the foundation for excellent, future-ready learning. But adopting HQIM is only the beginning. Ensuring those materials lead to meaningful, consistent classroom experiences requires ongoing professional learning, strong instructional leadership, and systems that support educators to practice over time.

After COVID-19, the U.S. witnessed a nation-wide decline in math scores for PK-12 students. In response, Iowa has passed new legislation re-emphasizing math in schools.

Assessments are most powerful when they inform instruction, not interrupt it.

That’s the idea behind a new partnership between Illustrative Mathematics (IM) and New Meridian. As an IM Certified supplemental partner, New Meridian has developed ProgressGuide Assessments (PGA) aligned to IM Math v.360, providing teachers with timely evidence of students’ progress in understanding the mathematical concepts at the center of daily instruction.

EdReports, an independent nonprofit that reviews instructional materials, has rated IM 9–12 Integrated Math v.360 green across all three gateways in its 2026 high school review:

Philadelphians we must stop treating schools as a cost center and start treating them as the center of the city’s wealth strategy. A city is not truly wealthy because a few neighborhoods are attracting capital. A city is wealthy when its children are safe, literate, loved, challenged, healthy, and surrounded by adults who have enough stability to help them imagine and build a future.

The Grand Rapids Area Schools (ISD 318) Board of Directors marked a major milestone on June 8, approving a historic district-wide curriculum overhaul while simultaneously confronting a final report from a community advisory task force formed in the wake of last year’s failed referendum.

As math outcomes improve across Los Angeles Unified School District, a new analysis released by Partnership for Los Angeles Schools finds that schools using IM® Math, a problem-based curriculum developed by Illustrative Mathematics, are seeing even stronger gains than comparable non-IM schools. That difference is equivalent to approximately 3–4 additional months of math learning each year.

Math improvement rarely stalls because districts aren’t taking action. More often, it stalls because well-intentioned supports accumulate faster than schools can turn them into a coherent, actionable instructional plan.

Brandywine School District, located in Wilmington, Delaware, has demonstrated strong academic growth in both math and reading by focusing on instructional coherence, foundational literacy and math practices, student attendance, and data-informed continuous improvement.