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Staff Development for Eduators' Whitepaper Outlines Implemenation Options for Singapore Math
Staff Development for Eduators' — Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Staff Development for Educators (SDE) has published a whitepaper to assist school administrators in evaluating the implementation strategies for this next generation approach to elementary math instruction. Singapore Math refers to a collection of math teaching strategies common in elementary Singaporean classrooms. Read More »
El Shmoop Arrives: SAT and ACT Now En Español
Shmoop — Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Shmoop celebrates America’s most popular second language in producing the ACT and the SAT exam prep universes in Spanish. Read More »
Bookshare Passes 150,000 Student Members & 125,000 Titles
Benetech — Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Bookshare® a global leader in copyrighted, digital accessible books for people with print disabilities, is dramatically overachieving its five year collection and member targets at the close of its fourth year of funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). Read More »
Performance Series™ Receives DoE Approval for Blue Ribbon School Program
GlobalScholar — Tuesday, October 11, 2011
GlobalScholar today announced that the Department of Education has accepted Performance Series™ as an approved test for schools applying for the Blue Ribbon Schools Program. Schools will be able to begin using Performance Series for the upcoming Blue Ribbon Schools application period, which opens in November. Read More »
Discovery Education Joins Partners To Introduce Free Learning Resources
Discovery Education — Monday, October 10, 2011
Discovery Education has partnered with numerous like-minded companies to create an assortment of free resources for educators, students and their families. Designed to support and advance student achievement at the start of a new school year, these resources span a variety of topics from the wonders of science to internet literacy. Read More »
School Improvement Network Announces New Version of Observation 360
School Improvement Network — Saturday, October 08, 2011
School Improvement Network provides the only classroom observation tool with prescriptive technology. The program will actually recommend training videos based on the observation results, thanks to its integration with the world's largest online professional development platform, PD 360. Read More »
Jersey City PS Selects Infinite Campus
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc. — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Custom Computer Specialists, Inc., the Northeast Channel Partner for Infinite Campus, announces that the Jersey City Public Schools, which serves over 27,000 students within Hudson County New Jersey, has selected Infinite Campus as its student information system (SIS). Read More »
Renaissance Learning Announces Reading Assessment for Spanish-Speaking Students
Renaissance Learning — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Renaissance Learning announced STAR Reading Spanish, a new computerized reading assessment for students whose native language is Spanish. The test can be used with students in grades 1–12 to assess their Spanish reading levels from beginning first grade to an end-of-fifth grade reading level. Read More »
Low Performing Schools Score Big on TX TAKS
Empowering Writers — Saturday, October 08, 2011
Houston ISD shouts from the rooftops that Empowering Writers, K-8 provider of Professional Development for the instruction of writing, is the driving force behind their TAKS test score increase in 09-10! By implementing the Empowering Writers approach, 18 of the lowest performing schools within Houston ISD's East Region improved an average of 11.3% on Texas TAKS tests. Read More »
Denver Schools Selects SAFARI Montage Platform
SAFARI Montage — Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Denver Public Schools has selected SAFARI Montage as the provider for both its Streaming Media content and Digital Media Management platform. After a year-long, in-depth bid evaluation process, the school district awarded SAFARI Montage with a 3-year contract to provide these services to all of the district’s schools. Read More »
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