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Shmoop Announces Its 3rd Annual Summer Reading List
Shmoop — Monday, June 11, 2012
Shmoop, a publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, announces its 3rd Annual Summer Reading List. If students are looking to get lost in the pages (or Kindle screens) of some seriously awesome summer reads, they've come to the right place. Read More »
WY District Wyoming Adopts CCC! from New Dimension Media
New Dimension Media — Monday, June 11, 2012
Uinta County School District #1 in Wyoming-with over 2,800 students-has adopted CCC! Streaming Media from New Dimension Media (NDM). This service will allow teachers to augment their classroom lessons with award-winning educational media from providers... Read More »
Research Finds 97% of Teachers Are Now Favorable Towards CCSS
Archipelago Learning — Saturday, June 09, 2012
Archipelago Learning, a PLATO Learning company, is reporting 97% of teachers surveyed hold favorable attitudes towards the Common Core Standards. The findings from Archipelago’s Study Island 2011 year-end customer survey found 57% of teachers were “very favorable” overall towards the Common Core Standards, up from 27% in 2009. Read More »
The Essential Ed-Tech Guide To Flipping Any Classroom
ASCD and ISTE — Thursday, June 07, 2012
ASCD and ISTE are pleased to announce the release of Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day. Authored by pioneering educators Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, and copublished by ASCD and ISTE, this practical guidebook introduces readers to the "how-to" and "why" behind the flipped-classroom approach. Read More »
Vallas Group Debuts Turnaround System with Cambium Learning
Cambium Learning® Group — Wednesday, June 06, 2012
Cambium Learning® Group announced an exclusive partnership with The Vallas Group, Inc. to bring nationally known education reform leader Paul Vallas' unique school improvement model to struggling schools across the nation. Read More »
Shmoop Launches ASVAB Guide
Shmoop — Tuesday, June 05, 2012
The ASVAB (pronounced AZ-vab, as opposed to…other pronunciations) is a tool used by military recruiters to gauge whether an applicant is qualified for enlistment. The test is open to all eligible candidates for the Armed Forces, although it's usually taken only by those who are not fatigued by the idea of dressing regularly in fatigues. Read More »
Odyssey 2012 Offers Custom Courses and Grade Management
CompassLearning — Monday, June 04, 2012
CompassLearning announced the 2012 summer version of CompassLearning Odyssey®, which provides educators more flexibility to customize, control and add curriculum, content, and authentic tasks and innovative course and grade management features that help teachers spend more time teaching by reducing administration time. Read More »
EasyBib Launches "You Are What You Write" Campaign
EasyBib — Monday, June 04, 2012
EasyBib has launched "You Are What You Write," a new campaign to help students learn how to responsibly use and evaluate the reliability of information they find on the internet. The goal of the campaign is to help students understand how important information literacy skills are, in this current internet culture, ... Read More »
Kentucky DOE Selects BRIGANCE® Kindergarten Screen;
Curriculum Associates, LLC — Monday, June 04, 2012
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has adopted Curriculum Associates' BRIGANCE® Kindergarten Screen as the common kindergarten readiness screener. Starting in the 2013-14 school year, all public kindergarten classrooms in the state will use the screener to determine students' current level of performance and support student learning through developmentally appropriate educational instruction informed by screening results. Read More »
RFA Selected To Evaluate Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T.
RFA — Saturday, June 02, 2012
From a competitive pool of national and local applicants, RFA has been selected to conduct a five-year mixed-methods study in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (NC) School District. Charlotte-Mecklenburg is a national leader among urban school districts, and is known for smart, effective reform efforts. Read More »
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