PreK-12 Market Headlines
dataMetrics Creates New Report To Help Better Analyze Assessment Data
dataMetrics — Friday, March 05, 2010
dataMetrics, a Massachusetts-based company specializing in test processing and reporting software for educational institutions, has added a new report to its TestWiz online software. The new Student Profile with Items Report combines elements from two reports into one Read More »
Discovery Announces 2010 Discovery Educator Network Gurus
Discovery Education — Thursday, March 04, 2010
Highlighting educators who have a passion for sharing best practices with their peers, Discovery Education announces the 2010 Discovery Educator Network (DEN) Gurus. Five educators were chosen through a competitive application process as the first-ever DEN Gurus..... Read More »
Tyler Technologies Signs ERP Contract with Parkway School District
Tyler Technologies, Inc. — Thursday, March 04, 2010
The Parkway Board of Education, representing one of the largest school districts in St. Louis County and Missouri, has signed a contract to invest in Tyler’s Munis® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, part of Tyler’s complete School Solution. Read More »
Alabama Meets Data Quality Campaign Criteria with Support from STI
STI — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Partnering with STI, the Alabama Department of Education has successfully met all the Data Quality Campaign criteria for improving the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data to ensure student success. Alabama is one of only 12 states that have achieved this goal. Read More »
DDI's HELP Math Premiers Diagnostic-Prescriptive Tool for Differentiation
Digital Directions International — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Digital Directions International (DDI) has significantly enhanced their HELP Math for ELL and Special Needs program by integrating an innovative diagnostic-prescriptive tool that allows the teacher to pretest students to better individualize instruction. Read More »
Elementary Students Improve Three Grade-Level Equivalents with Pearson's SuccessMaker
Pearson — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Elementary math students are improving as much as three grade-level equivalents over the course of one school year thanks to Pearson's SuccessMaker, an adaptive digital learning environment for K-8 students, according to the latest independent efficacy research from Gatti Evaluation, Inc. Read More »
School Specialty Adds Lexile Measures to MCI
School Specialty — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
The addition of Lexile® measures within MCI (Making Connections® Intervention) provides educators with a comprehensive solution for determining the reading levels of struggling middle school readers, matching them with targeted instructional resources, and monitoring their growth in reading ability. Read More »
Texas Schools Are the First to Launch the Time To Know Digital Teaching Platform
Time To Know — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
This school year, Grand Prairie ISD, became the first U.S. school district to launch Time To Know, a complete, interactive curriculum system designed specifically for today’s one-to-one computing classrooms. Time To Know empowers teachers to easily manage instruction, learning and assessment. Read More »
Writing Scores Improve for NC Middle School Students Learning with Pearson's WriteToLearn
Pearson — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
For more than a year, WriteToLearn has been an integral part of reading and writing instruction across the curriculum at this middle school in the heart of North Carolina’s Piedmont region, and students are seeing remarkable results. Read More »
Buy 10-pack Study Buddies, Receive Brainchild Achiever! FREE for Entire School
Brainchild, Corp — Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Schools looking for help in preparing for state assessments now can receive FREE access to Brainchild Achiever! online assessment and instruction program for the entire school by purchasing one 10-pack of Brainchild’s Study Buddy hand-held tutors before March 31, 2010. Read More »
