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ALEKS Online Reporting's Effective, Data-Driven Instruction
ALEKS Corporation — Wednesday, October 03, 2012
ALEKS Corporation offers online reporting through an optimized Reports page that displays student data in an easy to navigate, visual format. ALEKS online reports provide detailed student performance information that is continuously updated in real-time. The Reports page makes it easy to quickly review ALEKS reports and compare data at the class and individual student levels Read More »
Capstone Launches Capstone Classroom
Capstone — Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Capstone announces the launch of Capstone Classroom, offering classroom solutions for grades PreK-8 educators. Among Capstone Classroom's extensive collection of 7,000 nonfiction and fiction titles with teacher support materials includes three new leveled reader programs to support early readers... Read More »
Corwin Expands Science List with 10 Best-Selling Titles
Corwin — Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Corwin has signed an agreement with the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) to become a distributor for ten best-selling titles for science teachers. The additional titles represent a significant expansion of Corwin's growing list for science teachers, curriculum directors, and staff developers. Read More »
FL Regional Educational Consortia Select Performance Matters
Performance Matters — Wednesday, October 03, 2012
One of Florida's Race to the Top initiatives is that all districts will implement a local instructional improvement system (LIIS) ... To systematically manage continuous instructional improvement, regional educational consortia across the state are turning to Performance Matters™, a web-based solution that provides an integrated platform for student assessment, data management and teacher effectiveness. Read More »
TN Approves Adoption of Carnegie Learning Math
Carnegie Learning, Inc. — Wednesday, October 03, 2012
The Tennessee Department of Education has approved Carnegie Learning's suite of math curricula as preferred basal instructional materials through June 2018. Adopted materials include Carnegie Learning MATHia® software for middle grades 6-8 and Carnegie Learning Bridge to Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II textbooks and Cognitive Tutor® software for high school students. Read More »
Capstone Literacy Center Announces New Partnership with St. Clair Schools
Capstone — Tuesday, October 02, 2012
The Capstone Literacy Center recently announced a new partnership with St. Clair Schools for the 2012-2013 school year. The Capstone Literacy Center helps students with reading disabilities through a Holistic Literacy Instruction and an innovative new online reading program from Capstone Digital called myON™ reader. Read More »
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Selects ASCD for PD
ASCD — Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), winner of the 2011 Broad Prize for Urban Education, recently selected ASCD as its new, districtwide professional development partner. Administrators sought a scalable professional development solution that would support efforts to better align professional development to the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards and meet key goals of the school system's Strategic Plan 2014. Read More »
Leading Charter Schools Nationwide Adopt 'i-Ready'
Curriculum Associates, LLC — Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Many of the nation's leading charter schools have chosen Curriculum Associates' i-Ready™ Diagnostic & Instruction to be a key element of their blended learning and student growth initiatives. Harlem Children's Zone, New Classrooms, Rocketship Education, and Uncommon Schools Boston, as well as KIPP Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York all use i-Ready. Read More »
Problem-Attic offers Tens of Thousands of Proven Test Questions
EducAide Software — Monday, October 01, 2012
EducAide Software put tens of thousands of high-quality questions for personalizing learning at the fingertips of teachers around the country, for free, with the launch of Problem-Attic. More than an item bank, Problem-Attic allows teachers to find questions by topic, select them individually and format them using Problem-Attic's online tools to create and output tests, quizzes, worksheets, flash cards, overheads and problem-of-the-day calendars with ease. Read More »
ECS Releases Roadmap for Improving Early Reading Proficiency
Education Commission of the States — Monday, October 01, 2012
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) released A State Policy Roadmap for Improving Early Reading Proficiency, a resource to help state leaders and policymakers create effective policies and programs. Read More »
