Legend.org buys Mastery Transcript Consortium from ETS to modernise the report card
What's the deal? Legend.org, an AI-native education assessment platform, has acquired the Mastery Transcript ConsortiumDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → (MTC) from ETS, a global education and talent solutions organization. The combined entity will operate as Mastery.org. Terms were not disclosed.
What does each side do? MTC spent nearly a decade building the Mastery Transcript and MTC Learning Record, competency-based digital records designed to show what students know rather than the courses they completed. Legend.org helps educators evaluate authentic student work.
What changes for schools? The immediate focus is continuity, preserving the core Mastery Transcript and strengthening existing tools. Over time, Mastery.org plans to expand evidence capture, competency records, educator workflows, and transcript review.
Why now? Generative AI has called traditional grading into question. When homework and essays can no longer serve as simple proxies for understanding, schools need new ways to document process, revision, and demonstrated competency.
What's the endgame? Under Legend's leadership, Mastery.org aims to reach more schools and expand adoption of mastery-based transcripts across its public, private, charter, and international members.
"The future of learning does not fit neatly into a GPA," said Matt Sornson, chief executive officer and co-founder of Legend.org. "Mastery.org gives schools a trusted way to turn that work into an official record."
Scott Looney, MTC's founder and Head of School at Hawken School, said the group began "with a simple but urgent idea: create a new approach to measuring students' competency." He added: "I'm excited to see Mastery.org carry this work into its next chapter."
The signal: The deal reflects a broader shift toward skills-first credentialing, a direction ETS pursued during its stewardship of MTC. As AI reshapes how work is produced and assessed, the traditional transcript is becoming a contested space, and buyers are betting that richer records of learning will replace the grade.
Read more: The Manila Times
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