Reporter question: what's the most underreported angle in this whole space?

The downstream public-health implications. The way scoring systems shape who gets jobs has direct, measurable effects on community health outcomes 5-10 years out, and almost nobody covers that thread.

The vendor consolidation story. Half a dozen private-equity-backed assessment vendors are quietly buying up the smaller ones. The infrastructure's about to be more centralized than it's ever been and no one's writing about it.

The replication crisis in IO psychology. Most of the foundational "validated" assessments in widespread use today were validated with sample sizes and methods that wouldn't pass peer review now.

From a high-school teacher's vantage: the way college-application scoring is reshaping what we teach. The story has been told from the college-admissions side; it has not really been told from the high-school-curriculum side.