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FundingFactory Boosts Fundraising Through Business Recycling Programs
FundingFactory — Saturday, February 25, 2012
FundingFactory ®, the nation's largest fundraising-by-recycling program for schools and nonprofits, is sponsoring the "Just Ask" Campaign to foster business participation in community recycling projects and heighten awareness about electronic waste. Read More »
Houston ISD Harnesses Naviance Technology
Hobsons — Thursday, February 23, 2012
Naviance reports that Houston Independent School District recently completed its first year of a district-wide Naviance Succeed® implementation with promising results in student usage and staff adoption. Houston ISD armed its high schools and middle schools with Naviance Succeed, a platform that helps schools promote college and career readiness through increased collaboration, rigor and tHobsonsransparency. Read More »
Johnson County PS Uses WriteToLearn To Accelerate Student Literacy Achievement
Pearson — Wednesday, February 22, 2012
With a sharp focus on accelerating student achievement in writing and reading, educators at Johnson County Public Schools in Mountain City, Tenn., recently turned to WriteToLearn®, Pearson’s award-winning web-based literacy tool, to support its efforts and help prepare students for the state writing assessment. Read More »
New DVD Series Tie to Current Topics for HS Students
Cerebellum Corporation — Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Cerebellum Corporation has released the Daily Planet: Wildlife and Daily Planet: Inventions & Technology series for grades 9-12. The Daily Planet DVD programs explore the scientific aspects of current topics and events though the use of interviews, field pieces and real-life experiments to support science and STEM curricula. Read More »
MN Schools Succeed with Lexia Reading
Lexia Learning — Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Across the state of Minnesota, schools are experiencing an increase in student reading proficiency by using Lexia Reading®, an innovative, technology-based reading program. In districts such as Minneapolis Public Schools, Edina Public Schools, Eden Prairie Schools, and Rochester Public Schools, a growing number of schools have implemented the program with great success. Read More »
Classroom Library Co. Launches
Classroom Library Co. — Monday, February 20, 2012
The Classroom Library Co. has launched to assist educators assemble classroom-ready K-8 books that are tailored to reading levels and state-mandated standards of each individual classroom. The company has assembled thousands of reading collections to inspire students at all levels of the reading spectrum and ensure that educators can successfully teach their curricula. Read More »
PublicSchoolWORKS Helps Districts Meet New Compliance Regulations
PublicSchoolWORKS — Monday, February 20, 2012
In order to help districts in various states across the country meet new requirements to make safety resources available to parents, PublicSchoolWORKS has developed the Parent InfoCenter. The Parent InfoCenter is custom-designed to meet state-specific requirements on safety awareness for parents, including bullying prevention and child abuse prevention training Read More »
SAS® Curriculum Pathways® Registers Record Sign-Ups
SAS Institute Inc. — Monday, February 20, 2012
SAS® Curriculum Pathways® has registered a record 70,000 teachers and 18,000 schools in the US for its enhanced online education resources. SAS Curriculum Pathways was also recently honored by the eSchool Media Readers’ Choice Awards, District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products and the Technology & Learning Awards of Excellence. Read More »
Alexander Street Adds Teachers TV Titles
Alexander Street Press — Saturday, February 18, 2012
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of the complete catalog of United Kingdom-based Teachers TV to its Education in Video collection. This addition significantly increases the collection, adding more than 800 hours of best-practice, research-based and in-classroom education video, with no additional charge to customers. Read More »
AZ District Finds Solution for Assessment & Evaluation Management
Truenorthlogic — Thursday, February 16, 2012
Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) in Arizona, a nearly 10,000 student district, is focused on providing an integrated system to manage student assessment and reporting, and leverage that data as part of their teacher and administrator evaluations to address the mandate of Arizona Senate Bill 1040. Read More »
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