http://www.ednetinsight.com en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Central by Imulus (http://imulus.com) info@ednetinsight.com http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/alexandria--va--chooses-tyler-technologies--erp-solution.html 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. ]]> Wednesday, May 16, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/alexandria--va--chooses-tyler-technologies--erp-solution.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/brainware-safari-closes-cognitive-gaps-for-students-with-sld.html 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. ]]> Tuesday, May 15, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/brainware-safari-closes-cognitive-gaps-for-students-with-sld.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ctb-mcgraw-hill-and-brainpop-collaborate.html 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. ]]> Monday, May 14, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ctb-mcgraw-hill-and-brainpop-collaborate.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ohio-approves--i-ready-diagnostic--as-student-growth-measure.html 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. ]]> Monday, May 14, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ohio-approves--i-ready-diagnostic--as-student-growth-measure.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/shmoop-launches-ged-guide.html Shmoop. a publisher of digital curriculum and test prep, is now offering a comprehensive guide to the GED that will prepare hopefuls in advance of this all-important test. ]]> Monday, May 14, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/shmoop-launches-ged-guide.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/rochester--mn--public-schools-adopt-ccc-.html Rochester Public Schools in Rochester, MN-with over 16,000 students-has adopted CCC! Streaming Media from New Dimension Media (NDM). This service will allow teachers to augment their classroom lessons with award-winning educational media /// ]]> Saturday, May 12, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/rochester--mn--public-schools-adopt-ccc-.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/shmoop-launches-sat-ii-spanish-and-sat-ii-spanish-with-listening-test-prep.html Shmoop is here to help students get their prep for the SAT Spanish tests. Check out Shmoop's SAT Spanish and SAT Spanish with Listening exams, test practice that will keep students up at night. In a good way. Los invitamos. ]]> Saturday, May 12, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/shmoop-launches-sat-ii-spanish-and-sat-ii-spanish-with-listening-test-prep.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/capstone-offers-presale-of-new-pebblego-social-studies-database.html Building upon the success of its previously released PebbleGo™ databases, Capstone will launch its newest PreK-3 reading and research solution PebbleGo Social Studies this fall. Customers renewing or purchasing any of the PebbleGo databases by September 30 will receive a free subscription to the new PebbleGo Social Studies database up to their next renewal date. ]]> Saturday, May 12, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/capstone-offers-presale-of-new-pebblego-social-studies-database.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ed-fi--gains-momentum-in-k-12-education-sector.html Since launching in July 2011, the Ed-Fi Tool Suite, including the data standard and dashboards, has gained significant momentum in K-12 education among state education agencies, school districts and vendors. Eight states have licensed or are in discussions to license the Ed-Fi Tool Suite, and an additional four states will benefit from Ed-Fi-enabled tools through the Shared Learning Collaborative ]]> Saturday, May 12, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/ed-fi--gains-momentum-in-k-12-education-sector.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/catapult-learning-and-teachscape-announce-partnership.html Catapult Learning and Teachscape announced an agreement to provide educators and teachers in non-public schools access to powerful professional development software and resources. This new agreement enables Catapult Learning to offer Teachscape's observation and evaluation system to its non-public school customers... ]]> Thursday, May 10, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/catapult-learning-and-teachscape-announce-partnership.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/pa-doe-approves-brigance--developmental-inventories-as-early-learning-assessment-tools.html Curriculum Associates' BRIGANCE® Early Childhood Developmental Inventory (ECDI) and BRIGANCE® Head Start Developmental Inventory (HSDI) were both approved by OCDEL to support outcomes reporting for children in the Infant-Toddler (0-3 years) and Pre-kindergarten (3-5 years) age ranges. ]]> Thursday, May 10, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/pa-doe-approves-brigance--developmental-inventories-as-early-learning-assessment-tools.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/de-to-launch-personalized-learning-paths-for-9th-and-10th-graders.html The Delaware Department of Education is launching a personalized program for 9th and 10th graders that will create customized learning paths for each student based on testing data. Beginning next school year, the program will use students’ performance on Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS) and National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests to create the personalized paths for freshmen and sophomores in all 43 of the state’s public high schools. ]]> Wednesday, May 09, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/de-to-launch-personalized-learning-paths-for-9th-and-10th-graders.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/edgate-enhances-mapping-tools-for-new-ccss-identifiers.html EdGate® Correlation Services today announced an expanded capability for mapping educational standards, including use of the soon-to-be-released Common Core identifiers. This additional capacity will be offered as part of the alignment services the company provides to publishers, school districts and content providers. ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/edgate-enhances-mapping-tools-for-new-ccss-identifiers.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/job-readiness-videos-streamed-on-demand.html Public libraries, job training programs, military libraries, vocational and career schools will now benefit from a recent agreement between INTELECOM Intelligent Telecommunications and the Business SoftSkills Company. The agreement adds all twelve titles from the Business SoftSkills™ career enhancement video curriculum to INTELECOM's online streaming video library. ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/job-readiness-videos-streamed-on-demand.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/release-6-5-of-math-learning-software-series.html MathTutor Educational Software, Inc. today announced Release 6.5 of the MathTutor software series for Grades 6-12 math. This release includes several enhancements. The first is a new student learning interface, which provides easy access to all the components of the software, including instructional content, assessment, and testing. Another ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/release-6-5-of-math-learning-software-series.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/new-brunswick-first-nj-district-to-adopt-the-faste-platform.html While New Brunswick Public Schools is one of several New Jersey districts across the state that already implement Performance Matters, it was the first school district in the state to purchase the company’s FASTe (Formative Action System for Teacher Effectiveness) platform. FASTe provides a turnkey system for evaluating educator effectiveness.... ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/new-brunswick-first-nj-district-to-adopt-the-faste-platform.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/new-sat-vocabulary-software-offered-free-to-educators.html Vivid Vocab is being offered for free to educators around the the world on a trial basis. The software's developers, all SAT authors and career SAT tutors, are trying to distribute licenses to as many schools as possible to get students used to the software. ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/new-sat-vocabulary-software-offered-free-to-educators.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/sally-ride-science-academy-promotes-cool-stem-careers.html The Sally Ride Science Academy’s train-the-trainer program educates teachers and counselors on the importance of introducing young students to STEM careers, showcases diverse role models in those careers, and provides pathways to incorporate STEM career awareness in the classroom. ]]> Tuesday, May 08, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/sally-ride-science-academy-promotes-cool-stem-careers.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/tales2go-audio-books-help-students-listen-in-on-learning.html Tales2Go is breathing new life into the audio book marketplace to help students get more excited about and skilled at reading. Tales2Go streams audio books and stories from leading publishers and storytellers to mobile devices in classrooms and beyond, giving educators and students instant and on-demand access to a large library of name-brand titles. ]]> Monday, May 07, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/tales2go-audio-books-help-students-listen-in-on-learning.html http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/pd-videos-provide-suicide-prevention-training.html School Improvement Network announced this week the release of a new series of professional development videos for teachers, created from video footage of the Prevent Suicide Hawai'i conference. The professional development video program will help educators identify warning signs of suicide before it occurs, outline available resources... ]]> Monday, May 07, 2012 http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/prek-12-market-headlines/pd-videos-provide-suicide-prevention-training.html