Renaissance Learning creates assessment, instruction, and practice solutions that put learning analytics and AI tools to work for educators, making personalized teaching possible for pre-K–12 schools.
Renaissance Learning creates assessment, instruction, and practice solutions that put learning analytics and AI tools to work for educators, making personalized teaching possible for pre-K–12 schools.
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a K–12 literacy development tool that motivates independent reading through goal setting, personalized recommendations, and over 220,000 quizzes, supp...
Delivers differentiated learning through targeted, teacher-assigned practice and adaptive support so students master the right skills at the right time in math, ELA, and more.
Empowers educators to build standards-based assessments and transform classroom results into actionable insights that strengthen formative practices and guide instruction and di...
Research-based assessments combining computer-adaptive tests (CAT), curriculum-based measures (CBM), and non-academic assessments to support screening and progress monitoring in...
Award-winning K-12 comprehensive reading assessment, available in English and Spanish (Star Lectura).
What customers say
“Accelerated Reader not only taught our students how to read and made the difference in our scores, but also engaged parents and brought us together as a faculty. Accelerated Reader has played a huge part in everything we’ve done, and we have a culture of readers to show for it.”
CustomerAccelerated Reader customer
“We have excellent students, master teachers, involved parents, and a supportive district team, but the Renaissance products work if you work them. Each year, we refine the fidelity with which we use them.”
CustomerRenaissance customer
“We weren’t using Star assessments the way they were intended until we started ongoing progress monitoring and tracking about two years ago,”
CustomerStar Assessments customer
Accelerated Reader
Renaissance’s 2017 account describes Cleveland School of the Arts using Accelerated Reader to support reading instruction. The vendor reports that reading scores doubled after one year and consistently reached the 90s by…
Tyton Partners Releases Research Report on K–12 Student Success
Tyton Partners published a new research report titled “From Promise to Practice: Delivering on K–12 Student Success and the Gaps that Remain,” sponsored by Renaissance. The study, which surveyed over 2,000 educators and administrators, analyzes the gap between district visions for student success and the implementation of those goals in daily practice. The findings highlight the impact of fragmented data systems, the role of departmental silos in procurement, and the potential for integrated technology to improve instructional outcomes.
CollaboratorTyton Partners
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Renaissance DnA Adds Partial Credit Scoring, PDF Writing Exports, and CSV Reporting
Renaissance DnA introduced enhancements to streamline assessment and reporting workflows. Educators can now download constructed-response student writing samples as formatted PDFs for easier review and archiving. The Item Bank now supports partial credit scoring for Inline Dropdown and Classification items, allowing for more granular measurement of student understanding. Additionally, a new feature enables the bulk export of specific assessment performance data into raw CSV files, facilitating external data analysis for educators and district administrators.
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Renaissance Launches Back-to-School 2026 Star Assessment Updates
Renaissance updated its Star Assessments suite for the 2026–2027 school year, including the addition of Star Preschool Numeracy and Star Preschool Whole Child assessments. Other updates include an AI-powered Scoring Assist for Star CBM Reading Passage Oral Reading to reduce grading time, and new field test measures in Star CBM Lectura and Math. The platform also updated learning progressions for several state and provincial standards, and updated Student Growth Percentiles (SGPs) to provide more precise longitudinal progress measurement.
New feature
SchoolCity Redesigns Teacher Scoring Interface
SchoolCity has released a redesigned Teacher Scoring interface for its Item Bank Assessments. The update provides a modernized, more intuitive workspace for educators to review and grade constructed-response and writing-prompt items. The new interface is designed to improve navigation and streamline rubric-based scoring workflows while providing the technical foundation for upcoming AI-assisted evaluation features.
