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      <title>GameDesk, AT&amp;T To Create Living Learning Lab - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many high school graduates are not fully prepared for college and career success. AT&T* and GameDesk are out to change that. By using the digital tools that are second nature to our kids today, educators and parents can engage and prepare students by conveying difficult concepts in a very familiar way.  
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      <pubDate>5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>HMH and HISTORY Unveil New SS iBooks® Textbooks - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and A&E Television Networks (AETN), the award-winning global media content company today announced the availability of two popular co-branded high school social studies iBooks textbooks for the Apple iPad.]]></description>
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      <title>MPLC's Umbrella License® for the K - 12 Sector - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC), an independent copyright licensing agency, is introducing its Umbrella License  for K - 12 schools and districts to supplement any existing license to show movies. The License gives schools the performance rights to show movies, popular children's programs, educational documentaries, and other audiovisual content for entertainment purposes on their campuses. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/17/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Alexandria (VA) Chooses Tyler Technologies' ERP Solution - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tyler Technologies, Inc. has signed agreements with the City of Alexandria, Va., and Alexandria City Public Schools for Tyler's Munis® enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. The contracts include software licenses, related professional services, maintenance and support.
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      <pubDate>5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>E2020 Inc. Introduces World Languages Course Offering - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[E2020 Inc. announced the full and seamless integration of a robust set of world languages courses into its catalog.  These language course options are available to e2020 students through an agreement with Middlebury Interactive Languages]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/16/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>BrainWare Safari Closes Cognitive Gaps for Students with SLD - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/brainware-safari-closes-cognitive-gaps-for-students-with-sld.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Groundbreaking research has demonstrated that a comprehensive, integrated cognitive skills training program can raise the cognitive functioning of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) to parity with normally developing students. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Utah State U Awarded $30 Million College Prep Project - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Utah State University’s (USU) has been awarded a federal Department of Education Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) partnership grant for $2.2 million a year over a proposed seven years for a total of $15.45 million. These funds will go toward a regional initiative designed to help better prepare the students for entrance into and success in higher education institutions. 
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      <pubDate>5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Follett and Inkling Partner - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Follett and Inkling Systems, Inc. today announced a partnership to offer Inkling's enhanced, interactive digital textbooks through the more than 900 college stores operated by Follett as well as online via  efollett.com®. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Shmoop Joins Q1Media's Student Lifestyle Channel - Business Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/business-headlines/shmoop-joins-q1media-s-student-lifestyle-channel.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Q1Media announced today that Shmoop will be joining its Student Lifestyle Channel as a publisher partner. ... Q1Media will work with major brands and advertising agencies to develop custom campaigns featuring video units and site wide ad integration to reach Shmoop's large student audience. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/15/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>CTB/McGraw-Hill And BrainPOP Collaborate - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ctb-mcgraw-hill-and-brainpop-collaborate.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[CTB/McGraw-Hill announced that it is collaborating with BrainPOP® to integrate BrainPOP's award-winning content for K-8 students into CTB's Acuity InFormative Assessment solution. The collaboration enables educators to use students' Acuity assessment results to assign BrainPOP instructional resources that are targeted to students' individual learning needs. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Ohio Approves 'i-Ready Diagnostic' as Student Growth Measure - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Curriculum Associates' i-Ready Diagnostic has been approved by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) as a student growth measure and is now on ODE's Approved List of Assessments that measure student growth for use ... in teacher and principal evaluations in K-8 English Language Arts and Mathematics. 
 
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      <pubDate>5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>National Geographic Enters Higher Ed and Career Markets - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[National Geographic Learning (NGL), part of Cengage Learning announced its entrance into the academic higher education and career markets with the release of a new series of educational readers. The National Geographic Learning Reader Series was created by experienced subject matter experts using the distinguished, multimedia-rich content of the National Geographic Society.
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      <pubDate>5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>The McGraw-Hill Companies Prepare for Education Company Spin-off - Business Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/business-headlines/the-mcgraw-hill-companies-prepare-for-education-company-spin-off.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The McGraw-Hill Companies announced further steps to establish the new, independent company, McGraw-Hill Education, by the end of this year.  The process of creating this new entity requires multiple changes across operating and support functions to both separate the education segment from The McGraw-Hill Companies and to stand up McGraw-Hill Education as an independent, digital learning and education services organization.  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Kids Choose Tony Hawk's 900 Revolution Inspired Contest Winner - Announcements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ Capstone announces the winner of its "Join the Revolution" student writing contest. Inspired by its action-adventure, sci-fi book series Tony Hawk's 900 Revolution, the contest invited students to create a unique and inspiring character to be the next member of the Revolution team, ...
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      <pubDate>5/14/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>SIIA Honors Education Industry Veterans - Featured News</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/featured-news/siia-honors-education-industry-veterans.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) honored Dr. Patrick Suppes, Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Stanford University, with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. SIIA also presented the Ed Tech Impact Award to Charles Blaschke, Founder and President of Education TURNKEY Systems, Inc. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/12/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Ranking Reveals World's Top Countries for Higher Education - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Universitas 21, a leading global network of research universities, has developed the ranking as a benchmark for governments, education institutions and individuals. It aims to highlight the importance of creating a strong environment for higher education institutions to contribute to economic and cultural development]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/12/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>HMH Reaches Agreement To Convert Current Debt to Equity - Business Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/business-headlines/hmh-reaches-agreement-to-convert-current-debt-to-equity.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that it has reached an agreement with more than 70% of its senior secured lenders and bondholders on the terms of a comprehensive financial restructuring plan to convert HMH’s outstanding long-term debt to equity and create an appropriate capital structure to support the Company’s strategic plan and business objectives. 
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      <pubDate>5/12/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>AEP Offers Free Workshop on LRMI and Education Metadata - Announcements</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/announcements/aep-offers-free-workshop-on-lrmi-and-education-metadata.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) is offering a free Metadata Lab to provide educational resource providers with a clear understanding of existing and emerging education data standards, including the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI). The Lab will take place on June 4-5, 2012, during the Content in Context (CIC) conference in Washington, DC.  
 
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      <pubDate>5/12/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Portugal 2012 - World Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/world-headlines/oecd-reviews-of-evaluation-and-assessment-in-education--portugal-2012.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This report for Portugal forms part of the OECD Review on Evaluation and Assessment Frameworks for Improving School Outcomes. The purpose of the Review is to explore how systems of evaluation and assessment can be used to improve the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/10/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Report of the CoSN Delegation to South America Released - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) released a report on its recent senior-level delegation to Uruguay and Argentina. The report discusses the delegation’s November 2011 visit to K-12 schools in Uruguay and Argentina and offers key takeaways from the experience  that the U.S. education community can leverage ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/9/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>SIIA Announces Top Innovators in Education Technology - Business Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[During SIIA's bi-annual Innovation Incubator program held in connection with this week's SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit, Language Express and Filament Games were voted by 350 conference attendees as being the Most Likely to Succeed (first place and runner-up, respectively). Filament Games and Language Express were also voted as the Most Innovative (first place and runner-up, respectively).

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      <pubDate>5/9/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>The Hewlett Foundation Announces Winners of Essay Scoring Technology Competition - Announcements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A  British particle physicist and sports enthusiast, a data analyst for the National Weather Service in Washington, D.C., and a graduate student from Germany won the $60,000 first prize in a competition to design innovative software to help teachers and school systems assess their students’ writing. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/9/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>SIIA Announces CODiE™ Award Winners for Education Technology Industry - Featured News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries, announced the winners of the 2012 CODiE Awards in education technology during SIIA's annual Ed Tech Industry Summit. Overall, 29 winners were recognized for their products and services deployed specifically for the education technology market. 
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      <pubDate>5/8/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>SMALLab Learning and eInstruction Singapore Partner for K-12 Embodied and Engaging Learning Environments - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SMALLab Learning LLC and eInstruction Singapore announced that SMALLab Learning products will be available in Singapore. With eInstruction Singapore, SMALLab Learning will be able to provide cutting-edge learning environments, software and services to schools in the Southeast Asian city-state.
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      <pubDate>5/8/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[ASCD has expanded support for Common Core State Standards implementation with a new two-day institute series and a PD In Focus® channel dedicated exclusively to the topic. The new series of two-day institutes focuses on the theme "Leading the Change to Common Core State Standards: Essential Tools for School and District Leaders" ...

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      <pubDate>5/8/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The nation’s eighth-graders have improved their performance in science and narrowed some racial/ethnic achievement gaps since 2009, according to the latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as The Nation’s Report Card.  Scores reported in NAEP Science 2011 were higher than in 2009 for students across reported percentiles except those at the 90 th percentile, which showed no significant change. The average eighth-grade score increased two points, from 150 in 2009 to 152 in 2011. Scores also rose among public school students in 16 of 47 states that participated in both 2009 and 2011, and no state showed a decline in science scores from 2009 to 2011. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/7/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Meru Networks Bring Wireless Access to Schools across Northern Ireland - World Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/world-headlines/meru-networks-bring-wireless-access-to-schools-across-northern-ireland.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[All schools in Northern Ireland will now have access to wireless services as part of Northgate's $266m Education Network Northern Ireland (EN(ni)) contract.  Meru Networks, Inc. is partnering with Northgate Managed Services to provide state of the art Wi-Fi connectivity to over 350,000 teachers and pupils in 1,200 schools. 
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      <pubDate>4/10/2012 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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