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Ohio District Selected Naviance Technology
Hobsons — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) selected Naviance, the leading provider of measurable student success solutions for K-12 schools and districts, to prepare urban Ohio students for college and career success. The district will implement Naviance Succeed® in its 14 high schools to ensure all students have, and are on track to complete, an individual plan for success after high school. Read More »
Measured Progress To Help SBAC Make Assessments More Accessible
Measured Progress — Saturday, January 28, 2012
The SMARTER Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) has chosen Measured Progress and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to help develop policies and a manual related to testing accommodations and accessibility for students who qualify for specific kinds of assistance when taking assessments. Read More »
ETS Launches Special Website on Achievement Gaps
Educational Testing Service — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Educational Testing Service has created a new website to draw attention to achievement gaps among students, provide resources to those studying the issue and highlight success stories. The site looks at why and where achievement gaps exist; the impact they have on students, teachers, families, communities and national competitiveness; and most importantly how they can be narrowed and eventually closed. Read More »
Britannica's New Pathways: Science
Britannica Digital Learning — Thursday, January 26, 2012
A Web-based program for the classroom, Britannica Pathways: Science was created in response to the growing body of research and teacher experience showing that confusions and misunderstandings continue to plague students even after they’ve been taught a scientific topic in school. These misunderstandings persist because they make sense to students based on their personal experiences. Read More »
Carson-Dellosa Expands Offerings
Carson-Dellosa — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
What do OLIVIA™ and the Guinness World Records® holder for the world’s tallest man have in common? They are some of the newest stars in Carson-Dellosa’s lineup of engaging and motivational products for the classroom. The new OLIVIA™ products will include classroom bulletin board sets based on the Caldecott award-winning children’s book series by Ian Falconer. Read More »
StudySync Doubles Accounts with Schools
BookheadEd Learning, LLC — Wednesday, January 25, 2012
On the eve of its first anniversary, StudySync (www.studysync.com) the web-based supplemental curriculum from BookheadEd Learning, LLC, announced today that it has nearly doubled its accounts with teachers and administrators, and now reaches tens of thousands students in the U.S and Canada. Read More »
Pearson’s New Suite of Interactive Books for iPad
Pearson — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Thanks to a partnership that pairs the genius of Apple with Pearson’s research-based proven education programs, students everywhere will now be able to control their own powerful learning experience with the swipe of a finger. Students can pinch, stretch, tap and drag beautiful illustrations, animations, content, video and photos to master their subject matter on the iPad. Read More »
Florida School Districts Embrace the FASTe Platforn
Performance Matters — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
To meet the requirements of the new law and bolster their efforts to improve educator effectiveness, 22 of Florida’s 67 school districts have adopted FASTe, the Formative Action System for Teacher Effectiveness from Performance Matters. Performance Matters provides integrated, web-based solutions for assessment, data management and teacher effectiveness for the K-12 market. Read More »
More Than 40% of FL Districts Rely on Performance Matters
Performance Matters — Monday, January 23, 2012
To date, 43 percent of Florida districts have implemented the Performance Matters assessment and data management system — with 14 of these 29 districts adding the system in 2011. Among the most recent to purchase Performance Matters are Hernando County School District, Clay County School District, and the majority of school districts located in the Panhandle area of Florida. Read More »
DreamBox Learning Extends Intelligent Adaptive Learning Platform
DreamBox Learning — Monday, January 23, 2012
DreamBox Learning announced the launch of DreamBox Learning Math, a major expansion of its rigorous, award-winning online K-3 mathematics curricula. The latest version features more than 100 new lessons for a total of over 600 lessons aligned to the Common Core State Standards and added virtual manipulatives for K-5. Read More »
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