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Worcester Public Schools Selects Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt — Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that Worcester Public Schools (WPS), one of the largest school districts in Massachusetts, has implemented a specialized, multifaceted education solution aimed to boost parent engagement, foster a digital culture, and promote connectivity. Read More »
Total Reader Provides a Personalized Approach To Tracking Reading Growth
EDmin — Tuesday, November 01, 2011
The new Common Core reading standards have given educators a 21st-century metric for keeping their students on track for college and career readiness. However, teachers still need an effective way to track their students' progress and set goals. Now an online reading assessment program, Total Reader™, provides the ability to group students by Common Core Lexile standards. Read More »
Learn360 Integrates CCSS and 21st Century Skills with Streaming Videos
Learn360 — Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Learn360 announces the update of its online video content to correlate to Common Core Standards and 21st Century Skills. Teachers, parents and students will have access to video content correlated to the new standards, in addition to existing individual state standards and provincial standards for Canada. Read More »
Shmoop Launches AP World History
Shmoop — Monday, October 31, 2011
Shmoop, a publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, announces the launch of Shmoop AP World History at www.shmoop.com/ap-world-history. As the twelfth major subject area guide available on the site, AP World History is bursting with a wealth of information about our storied – and sometimes sordid – past. Read More »
Houston and Cypress Fairbanks Among Texas Districts Selecting Adaptive Curriculum
Sebit Inc. — Monday, October 31, 2011
School districts across Texas — including Houston Independent School District (ISD) and Cypress Fairbanks ISD — are selecting Adaptive Curriculum (AC) Science Texas™ to transform their science instruction and help meet the new and expanded requirements of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Science. Read More »
FundingFactory Expands List of Recyclable Items
FundingFactory — Sunday, October 30, 2011
FundingFactory program participants can now exchange small electronics such as digital cameras, MP3 players, and GPS systems for cash or points redeemable for new technology. The new qualifying items join inkjet cartridges, cell phones and laser cartridges as items accepted as part of the FundingFactory program. Read More »
School Improvement Network Launches Common Core 360.com
School Improvement Network — Sunday, October 30, 2011
In order to assist educators in that challenge, and to assure that they are able to enact the Standards in as timely and seamless a manner as possible, School Improvement Network has developed CommonCore360.com, a free website devoted to providing a host of resources to educators in need of Common Core Standards training. Read More »
Study Island Helps Schools Prepare for the New England Common Assessment Program
Archipelago Learning — Sunday, October 30, 2011
When students in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont take the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP) tests this month, educators in thousands of schools will be breathing easy, knowing their students have prepared for the NECAP using Study Island, a web-based, high impact, low cost standards mastery solution from Archipelago Learning. Read More »
ASU Study Shows Effectiveness of Adaptive Curriculum
Sebit Inc. — Saturday, October 29, 2011
Following an intensive, quantitative study of mathematics achievement in 6th, 7th and 8th grade students, researchers from Arizona State University’s Technology Based Learning & Research Center found that students who learn math through an innovative concept mastery solution from Adaptive Curriculum outperform their peers ... Read More »
DoDEA Selects Rethink Autism for Military Base Schools Worldwide
Rethink Autism — Thursday, October 27, 2011
Following a competitive bidding process earlier this year, the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) has awarded educational technology company Rethink Autism a contract to provide its Web-based educational intervention platform to students identified with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Read More »
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