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LearningStation Offers ACT Prep & EOC Assessments
LearningStation — Wednesday, January 30, 2013
LearningStation™ is pleased to announce the launch of its High School Item Bank, providing districts with ACT Prep and EOC Assessment content. Accessible through it's flagship platform, LearningStation Insight, both school and district administrators have access to 9 standards aligned End-of-Course assessments and the equivalent of 3 full ACT Tests with writing prompts included. Read More »
SchoolCity & Action Learning Systems Launch CCSS Software
SchoolCity, Inc., Action Learning System — Wednesday, January 30, 2013
SchoolCity, Inc. and Action Learning Systems are proud to announce the launch of the first end-to-end Common Core State Standards (CCSS) curriculum, assessment, and instruction product: The Synced Solution™. Read More »
EasyBib's New ResearchReady
EasyBib — Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Today's student researchers are inundated with information and many don't have the critical thinking or research skills they need to access and evaluate sources, define their topic, or avoid plagiarism. EasyBib comes to the rescue with its new ResearchReady product - a cloud-based learning platform that helps writers sort through the madness and do truly quality research. Read More »
Ballard & Tighe's New Educational Video Game
Ballard & Tighe, Publishers — Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Mastering academic vocabulary is a key factor in preparing students for state exams and is an important step towards college readiness. Ballard & Tighe, Publishers today announced the launch of Word Raider: Escape, a new online academic vocabulary game that blends rigorous vocabulary instruction with engaging modern-day game design for students in grades 2-5. Read More »
District Increases Percent of Students Passing State Assessment
Assessment Technology Incorporated — Tuesday, January 29, 2013
In under a decade, C.E. Rose Elementary School in Tucson, ArZ, has gone from approximately 20 to 30 percent of its students passing the state assessment, to more than 70 percent passing in both reading and math. The school's educators believe that these impressive gains occurred thanks to active engagement and motivation of students, planning and collaboration, and utilizing Galileo K-12 Online data to prompt and guide interventions Read More »
DreamBox Learning Positions Students for Success in Middle School Math
DreamBox Learning — Tuesday, January 29, 2013
DreamBox Learning® announced that DreamBox Learning Math now includes 1,000 adaptive lessons aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSSM). The online program, heralded for providing complete support for building number sense in the elementary grades, has released an expanded curriculum to prepare students for success in middle school math with new lessons covering fractions, decimals and integers. Read More »
Atomic Learning Videos Feature Educators Implementing CCSS
Atomic Learning — Monday, January 28, 2013
Throughout the course of this school year, Atomic Learning has been following several teachers to see how they are transitioning classroom lessons to implement the CCSS. Videos captured from these observations are part of the trusted ed tech training leader's Atomic TechCore solution, .... Read More »
Carson-Dellosa Releases CCSS Kits for Teachers
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, LLC — Monday, January 28, 2013
Carson-Dellosa announces the first Complete Common Core Standards Kit, a pre-printed, organized system of cards that allows a teacher to easily display the entire list of grade-specific Common Core State Standards in both math and language arts along with coordinating "I Can" statements. Read More »
Free Training Videos Provide Tips for Using Vernier's Sensor Technology in STEM
Vernier Software & Technology — Monday, January 28, 2013
Vernier Software & Technology has created 32 new instructional videos to help educators better use and understand the many features of its most popular STEM technologies, including LabQuest 2, iPad data collection, and many of Vernier's popular sensors. The videos were developed by Vernier's technology experts and are found online in the Vernier Video Training Library. Read More »
WWC Grants Top Ratings to Pearson’s enVisionMATH K-6 Research
Pearson — Saturday, January 26, 2013
The U.S. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse has issued a report validating research that Pearson’s enVisionMATH elementary school curriculum increases student achievement above and beyond other K-6 math programs. The WWC report confirmed findings of an independent study, noting that the randomized control study “provides strong evidence of enVisionMATH’s effectiveness.” Read More »
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