Release notes

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v1.17.0

• Added the New Meridian mastery statistics dataset, which estimates the difficulty of mastering Math learning components and Common Core standards (grades 3–8 and high school)
• Added Language Development standards to the U.S. academic standards dataset
  • Includes data included in the now-removed English Language Development Standards Framework dataset (WIDA ELD 2020)
  • Added English language development standards for Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Texas
  • Added Spanish language development standards (Marco DALE)
  • Added English Language Development and Spanish Language Development to AcademicSubjectENUM
  • Added Pending Implementation to AdoptionStatusENUM
• Updated the ELA learning components dataset
  • Corrected the attributionStatement on supports relationships to Common Core ELA standards

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API updates

• Added the OpenSciEd dataset to curriculum endpoints
  • Available only to organizations with granted access to the gated dataset
  • Otherwise, endpoints will return 40X errors or empty results
• Added gated IM® v.360 data to the curriculum endpoints (i.e., materials, classroomMaterials, glossaryTerms, and instructionalRoutines)
  • Available only to organizations with granted access to the dataset’s gated Instructional materials and Assessment materials downloads

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MCP server updates

• Added 3 tools to the MCP server
  • find_curriculum_lessons - Finds curriculum lessons that teach a standard, or that are named by their curriculum position or title
  • find_materials_for_lesson - Finds teacher-facing materials for a lesson and its activities, such as activity narratives, sample student responses, and activity synthesis scripts (requires access to IM® v.360 instructional and assessment materials)
  • find_misconceptions_for_standard - Finds common student misconceptions for a Math standard, sourced from IM® v.360 with Eedi Misconceptions Graph as a fallback
• Expanded support for existing find_standard_statement tool - Added ability to search standards by keyword or code prefix, in addition to standard code

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v1.16.0

• Updated the U.S. academic standards dataset from CGLT data
  • Added current standards frameworks for Kentucky (ELA) and Tennessee (Science)
  • Updated Kentucky (ELA, 2019) and Tennessee (Science, 2017) frameworks to be superseded frameworks (existing relationships to other entities preserved)
  • Added pending standards frameworks for Louisiana (Mathematics), Louisiana (ELA), North Carolina (ELA), Ohio (ELA), and Washington (Mathematics)
• Fixed U.S. academic standards data issues
  • Arkansas: Removed orphaned, superseded standards
  • Minnesota: Gave unique identifiers to standards that shared a UUID
• Made fixes and updates to Math learning components
  • Aligned to South Carolina (K–8, Algebra 1, Geometry with Statistics, and Algebra 2 with Probability) standards in U.S. academic standards, with crosswalks to CCSS in U.S. academic standards crosswalks
  • Added alignments to more Arkansas, California, Georgia, Mississippi, and Utah standards (text matches an already-aligned standard)
  • Realigned one Arizona standard
  • Realigned two Grade 7 learning components about slicing three-dimensional figures from CCSS 7.G.B.5 (and matching state standards) to 7.G.A.3

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v1.15.0

• Changed the format of IM® v.360 instructional materials from HTML to Markdown
  • Applies to the content property on Material entities
  • Math notation is kept as LaTeX
  • Image descriptions that were in screen-reader-only markup are now in the Markdown image alt text
• Fixes and updates to Math Learning Components
  • Aligned to U.S. academic standards for Alaska, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Virginia, with crosswalks to CCSS
  • Realigned to U.S. academic standards for North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin
  • Removed Montana cultural-context learning components from CCSS and other states’ standards

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v1.14.0

• Added new datasets to Knowledge Graph
  • English Learners Success Forum Guidelines
  • Eedi Misconceptions Graph
  • OpenSciEd
• Fixes and updates to the U.S. academic standards dataset
  • Filled in missing statementType and normalizedStatementType fields
  • Made some reclassifications (e.g. “Standard Grouping” → “Standard”)
  • gradeLevel corrections in Indiana Science (e.g., K-12 by default → more specific grade bands)
  • Fixed inLanguage values for Indiana Science, South Carolina Social Studies, Illinois Science, and Indiana Social Studies standards (English standards were mislabeled as Spanish)

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Platform updates

• New Dataset catalog for easy downloading of Knowledge Graph datasets

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v1.13.1

• Restored the jaccard property on hasStandardAlignment relationships (unintentionally removed in v1.12.0)

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v1.13.0

• Updated the U.S. academic standards dataset from CGLT data
  • Added new standards frameworks for Iowa (Social Studies), Maryland (Social Studies), Minnesota (Mathematics), Minnesota (Social Studies), Montana (ELA), Oklahoma (Science), Oregon (Social Science), and South Dakota (ELA)
  • Updated superseded frameworks to isCurrent=false (existing relationships to other entities preserved)
  • Updated adoptionStatus for Alabama Science (2023) from “Pending Implementation” to “Adopted”
• Fixed U.S. academic standards data issues
  • North Dakota (ELA) — Incorrect statementType and normalizedStatementType for a standard
  • Ohio (ELA) — Incorrect statementType and normalizedStatementType for a standard
  • Montana (Social Studies) — Incorrect statementType and normalizedStatementType for several standards
  • Updated author and attributionStatement for Indiana Mathematics

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v1.12.0

• Added Carnegie Skills Progressions dataset
  • Employer-recognized skills progressions for high school students
  • Sourced from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ↗ and ETS ↗’s Skills Progressions, Vol. 1
• Added XQ Competencies dataset
  • Competencies for high school students
  • Sourced from the XQ Institute ↗’s XQ Competencies
• Updated U.S. academic standards from CGLT data
  • Refreshed existing standards frameworks’ content
  • Added new standards frameworks with new UUIDs and isCurrent=true
    New frameworks are not yet aligned with Learning components.Currently, all learning components → standards alignments still reference the old standards.
  • Deprecated old standards frameworks with isCurrent=false (preserved existing relationships)
  • Removed isCurrent from StandardsFrameworkItem (remains on StandardsFramework)
  • Updated adoptionStatus to reflect CGLT values
  • Updated gradeLevel values to match CGLT source values

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v1.11.0

• StandardsFrameworkItem
  • Added optional alternateStatementCode field for statement codes that are not included in the CASE specification ↗, but are commonly used by publishers, teachers, and other edtech practitioners
  • Populated for Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) ↗ and various other states’ standards
• StandardsFramework and StandardsFrameworkItem
  • Updated author and attributionStatement fields to mention the state
  • Added isCurrent field to indicate whether the record is the most up-to-date version for the state-subject pair

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v1.10.1

• Restored Math U.S. academic standards crosswalks between Texas and CCSS standards that were incorrectly removed in v1.9.0
  • Updated the corresponding JSONL file downloads
  • Updated the corresponding API responses

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v1.10.0

• Updated ELA Learning Components and Math Learning Components
  • Updated license and attribution statement values for ELA Learning Components
  • Removed duplicate Learning Components causing inaccurate Jaccard scores for U.S. academic standards crosswalks
• Improved IM® v.360 dataset quality
  • Trimmed whitespace from fields
  • Fixed inLanguage and gradeLevel fields where they didn’t match ENUM
  • Removed duplicate hasChild and hasReference relationships
  • Updated mutuallyExclusiveWith relationship to always be bi-directional
  • Added missing Material entities
• Fixed U.S. academic standards data issues
  • Montana Social Studies — Several standards had normalizedStatementType incorrectly set to null
  • New York Math — One standard had statementType and normalizedStatementType incorrectly set to null and was missing some Learning Component alignments
  • Indiana Science — Some standards had subject incorrectly set to “Other”

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API updates

• Added a boolean hasChildren field to standards API responses to indicate whether an academic standard has child standards
  • GET /academic-standards
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/children
• Clarified descriptions for Math Coherence Map / Learning Progressions API endpoints
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/prerequisites — Standards a given standard builds from
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/builds-towards — Standards a given standard builds towards (those it is a prerequisite of)

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v1.9.0

• Aligned ELA Learning Components to ELA U.S. academic standards (grades K-2)
  • CCSS
  • State standards (Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, Washington, D.C., and Wyoming)

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v1.8.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Oregon, and Wyoming, with crosswalks to CCSS
• Finished aligning learning components to U.S. academic standards for Texas (grades K–1)

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API updates

• GET /curriculums/{curriculumId}/dependency-map - Gets a dependency map (i.e., between LessonGrouping entities) for a curriculum

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v1.7.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, with crosswalks to CCSS
• Fixed inconsistent learning component alignments to U.S. academic standards for Utah, South Dakota, Mississippi, Idaho, and Ohio
• Added a publisherIdentifier field to nodes in the IM® v.360 dataset that contains the ID originally assigned by Illustrative Mathematics (available in both file downloads and API responses)

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v1.6.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Kansas
• Fixed inconsistent learning component alignments to U.S. academic standards for Massachusetts
• Fixed the direction of the hasDependency relationship between components in IM® v.360

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API updates

• GET /academic-standards/search - Supports semantic search (i.e., search by concept or statement code) and filtering by grade, subject, and statement type
• GET /learning-components/search - Semantic search for Learning Components (i.e., search by description or identifier)

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Platform updates

• Create API keys ↗ to access our REST API and MCP server

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v1.6.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for North Carolina

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API updates

• Added endpoints for lessons, activities, and assessments aligned to a specific academic standard
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/lessons
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/activities
  • GET /academic-standards/{caseIdentifierUUID}/assessments
• Added endpoints for IM® v.360
  • GET /courses
  • GET /courses/{courseId}/scope-and-sequence
  • GET /lesson-groupings/{groupingId}
  • GET /lessons/{lessonId}
  • GET /lessons/{lessonId}/activities
  • GET /assessments
• Added endpoints for U.S. academic standards aligned to a curriculum’s lessons, activities, and assessments
  • GET /lessons/{lessonId}/standards
  • GET /activities/{activityId}/standards
  • GET /assessments/{assessmentId}/standards
  Instructional materials (Material entities for lessons, activities, and assessments) are not included.

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v1.5.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Florida, Idaho, Mississippi, Ohio, South Dakota, and Utah

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v1.4.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Massachusetts
• Added the IM® v.360 dataset - Includes IM® v.360 curriculum’s scope and sequence (CC BY-4.0 ↗ license)
• Added relevantToStandard relationship to the Learner Variability Navigator dataset - Links a Factor to a StandardsFrameworkItem for CCSS ELA standards

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v1.3.0

• Enable downloading Knowledge Graph data via JSONL files with UTF-8 encoding (no longer using deprecated flat CSV files)

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v1.2.0

• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Wisconsin
• Added U.S. academic standards crosswalks to compare state standards to CCSS
• Added the Learner Variability Navigator dataset from Digital Promise® ↗ (contact support@learningcommons.org ↗ to get access)
• Updated attribution statement to include Learning Commons

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v1.1.0

• Added U.S. academic standards for Washington, D.C.
• Aligned learning components to U.S. academic standards for Louisiana, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.