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eScholar Launches myTrack Collaborative Student-Centric Goal Planning Solution
eScholar — Wednesday, January 11, 2012
eScholar myTrack efficiently personalizes education by providing a group platform from which administrators, teachers and support staff are presented with an individualized and a holistic view of a student's progress across an entire education lifecycle. Read More »
Albuquerque Schools and HMH Blaze Trail To CCSS Implementation
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) has partnered with Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) to develop a systematic approach to implementing the Common Core Standards. APS has been chosen as one of six urban districts to participate in a national initiative, and with help from HMH, is leading the way to develop resources and strategies needed to fully transition to Common Core standards by 2014. Read More »
ASCD and Pearson Partner To Create Leadership Development Program for School Principals
ASCD, Pearson — Tuesday, January 10, 2012
ASCD and Pearson are collaborating with the Marzano Research Laboratory and Dr. Robert Marzano on the development of a new digital program reflecting the results of Marzano’s extensive studies establishing an evidence-based framework for principal growth and development. Read More »
New Dimension Media Rings in 2012 with New Adoptions in IL
New Dimension Media — Monday, January 09, 2012
Westchester School District 92.5 in Westchester, IL, Warren Elementary in Warren, IL, and Bartonville Grade School District 66 in Bartonville, IL have all adopted CCC! Streaming Media from Chicago-based New Dimension Media. This service will allow teachers at these Illinois schools to augment their classroom lessons with award-winning educational media... Read More »
New Study Reveals Only 12% of Fifth-Graders Have Mastered Basic Multiplication Facts
Big Brainz — Monday, January 09, 2012
Big Brainz partnered with 500 districts nationwide to test the fact fluency of over 250,000 students. Average fluency scores, even by fifth grade, averaged just 59 percent. On the bright side, the 15,000 students who played through Big Brainz' multiplication games catapulted their fluency scores to 95 percent. Read More »
NWEA & CompassLearning Alliance Expands
Northwest Evaluation Association, CompassLearning — Monday, January 09, 2012
Students in grades K – 2 will soon be able to benefit from personalized learning paths that link engaging, web-based instructional activities to assessment data...This new development for NWEA will give K – 2 educators the ability to deliver a unique learning path to each of their students based on the results of the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) assessment. Read More »
Shmoop Launches AP Environmental Science Guide
Shmoop — Monday, January 09, 2012
Shmoop, a publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, announces the launch of a new AP Environmental Science learning guide to help students prepare for the exam.In addition to an overview that prepares the diligent for the length, content and format of the test, the Shmoop guide to APES explores each topic on the exam in detail. Read More »
Cerebellum Corp. Releases Two New STEM DVD Series
Cerebellum Corporation — Sunday, January 08, 2012
Cerebellum Corporation released the Daily Planet: Social Studies Series and the Daily Planet: Physical Science Series. The Daily Planet DVD programs supplement science and STEM curricula and explore the scientific aspects of current topics and events though the use of interviews, field pieces and real-life experiments. Read More »
Complete Books On Tape Now Available Through Mackin
Mackin Educational Resources — Sunday, January 08, 2012
Mackin Educational Resources is now providing the Books On Tape collection of nearly 1,200 audiobooks in both CD and digital formats to public and school libraries and classrooms. This includes the bestselling and award-winning backlist and nearly 500 previously exclusive titles. Read More »
School Improvement Network Releases Its Learning Progression Tool
School Improvement Network — Sunday, January 08, 2012
School Improvement Network (SINET) has created a tool that will help educators make quick and powerful use of the Common Core State Standards. The Learning Progression Tool is a groundbreaking function that has been added to SINET's Common Core solution suite, Common Core 360. Read More »
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