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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 »
Headsprout Celebrates 600,000 Readers in 10 Years
Headsprout — Thursday, October 27, 2011
Headsprout, now part of DYMO/Mimio, announced today that its adaptive online literacy education programs have helped develop more than 600,000 capable, confident readers in homes and classrooms in the U.S. and around the world since their initial availability 10 years ago this week. Read More »
NoveList® and COMPanion® Partner To Improve Access to Books in the Classroom
EBSCO Publishing — Thursday, October 27, 2011
NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing, and COMPanion® have announced a partnership that will enrich K-12 reading curriculum by providing book recommendations to students and offering curriculum-based activities to teachers and school librarians. NoveList®Select, can now be seamlessly integrated into COMPanion’s Alexandria Library Automation Program. Read More »
Sopris Releases eMeasures of Vocabulary Growth
Cambium Learning® Group, Inc. — Thursday, October 27, 2011
eMeasures of Vocabulary Growth address the two groups of words most important to student academic success: Root Word Vocabulary and Academic Vocabulary. Root Word Vocabulary, for grades K-3, measures student knowledge of high-frequency root words—words they are most likely to encounter in text. Read More »
Title 1 Schools Improve with PD 360, Outperform Entire District
School Improvement Network — Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Independent research recently confirmed that 422 Title 1 schools significantly and consistently outperformed their non-Title 1 peers, experiencing dramatically higher gains in test scores than any other schools—and they did it in one school year. Read More »
Curriculum Associates Expands Its ‘CAMS® & STAMS®’ Series
Curriculum Associates, LLC — Wednesday, October 26, 2011
To help students master foundational math skills, Curriculum Associates has expanded the CAMS & STAMS family of products by making CAMS (Comprehensive Assessment for Mathematics Strategies) & STAMS (Strategies to Achieve Mathematics Success) available for grades 1-2. In addition, the company has added math practice with STAMS® Solve™. Read More »
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