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PARCC Awarded Additional Race to the Top Funds
Achieve — Wednesday, September 29, 2010
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has announced that the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers Consortium (PARCC or Partnership) will be awarded an additional $15.87 million in a supplemental grant to support the states participating in PARCC in successfully transitioning to Common Core State Standards and next generation assessments. Read More »
netTrekker Global Services Helps with Print-to-Digital Transition
netTrekker — Monday, September 27, 2010
netTrekker has created a new services offering. netTrekker Global Services is dedicated to helping publishers, districts, state departments, and international ministries of education effectively provide access to relevant digital educational resources customized to their students and teachers. Read More »
Target Announces Plans to Reach $1 Billion in Support of Education
Target — Monday, September 27, 2010
Target® today announced its plans to donate more than $500 million by the end of 2015 to support education, doubling its support to-date, for a total of more than $1 billion. The financial commitment is part of Target's new reading initiative, Target Read With Me(SM), aimed at helping more U.S. children read proficiently by the end of third grade. Read More »
Cerebellum Corp. Named Exclusive Distributor of the Defined Learning Library of DVD Content
Cerebellum Corporation — Thursday, September 23, 2010
Cerebellum Corporation announced that it has become the exclusive distributor of 150 award-winning titles from the Defined Learning library of DVDs. Produced by the award-winning Exploration Production Inc., and featured on Discovery Channel Canada, this is the first time that this series of high quality videos is available for purchase for the U.S. education and consumer markets. Read More »
Discovery Communications Recognized by Clinton Global Initiative for Commitment to STEM Education
Discovery Communications — Thursday, September 23, 2010
Discovery Communications was recognized today at the Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative for its multimedia, multi-year science initiative, "Be The Future," which supports President Obama’s science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education priorities. Read More »
Readygo®, Inc. Announces ReadyGo Merchant Connect
ReadyGo® Inc. — Monday, September 13, 2010
ReadyGo® Inc., has announced a simple and inexpensive solution to selling courses online along with automatically registering and tracking students. ReadyGo’s solution works with Google Checkout. Organizations build a store front in Google Checkout and use ReadyGo® Merchant Connect to automatically notify and register students. Read More »
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces $100 Million Innovation Fund
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Monday, September 13, 2010
Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the formal creation of a $100 million fund to support innovative ideas for new products to promote and enhance student achievement, individualized learning and effective technology integration in the classroom. Read More »
Scholastic Acquires Math Solutions
Scholastic — Monday, September 13, 2010
Scholastic announced today that it has acquired Math Solutions, a leading authority on K-12 mathematics instruction, providing teachers with the highest quality professional development services, publications and resources. Founded by renowned mathematics educator and author, Marilyn Burns, Read More »
Measured Progress Acquires Nimble Assessment Systems
Measured Progress — Saturday, September 11, 2010
Measured Progress has purchased Nimble Assessment Systems, a Newton, Massachusetts-based firm that specializes in computer-based testing with an emphasis on accessibility for students with disabilities and special needs. Nimble's products help the many students who need classroom accommodations... Read More »
K12 Inc. Reports Q4 and Full Year 2010 Results
K12 Inc. — Saturday, September 11, 2010
Revenues for the fiscal year 2010 (FY 2010) grew to $384.5 million, an increase of 21.8 percent over the same period prior year, primarily due to strong enrollment growth. EBITDA for FY 2010 increased 41.8 percent over the same period in the prior year to $61.2 million. Net income - K12 Inc. for the year was $21.5 million as compared to Net income - K12 Inc. of $12.3 million in the same period in the prior year, an increase of 74.8 percent. Read More »
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