PreK-12 Market Headlines
Pearson Collaborates with MetaMetrics To Improve Math Learning and Ensure Global Competitiveness
Pearson — Monday, February 15, 2010
Pearson today announced its collaboration with MetaMetrics®, developer of The Quantile Framework® for Mathematics, to assign Quantile® measures to its core middle and high school math courses. Read More »
Peoples Education Revolutionizes Supplemental Learning with Powerful Series of Online Tools
Peoples Education — Monday, February 15, 2010
Peoples Education has taken their unique, state customized approach for building their print based supplemental intervention materials and applied it to technology to create a set of highly useful online products aligned to state standards and assessments. The new ePath Knowledge™ series provides the perfect complement to the company’s print and online educational products .... Read More »
Schoolnet’s GradeSpeed SIS is Now Complete and Available to Districts
Schoolnet, Inc. — Monday, February 15, 2010
Schoolnet, Inc. announces the completion of GradeSpeed SIS, a fully comprehensive student information system developed in close collaboration with partner districts. The completion of GradeSpeed SIS comes after two years of client use, feedback and development with over 200 districts. Read More »
New ECF Report Finds Watershed Reforms In Tennessee’s Race to the Top Application
Education Consumers Foundation — Monday, February 15, 2010
The Education Consumers Foundation has reviewed Tennessee’s 1,100+ page proposal and highlighted 15 key developments that have the potential to dramatically improve schooling in the state. Read More »
Cerebellum Corp. Releases ‘Teaching Systems’ Advanced Placement (AP®) Test Prep Video
Cerebellum Corporation — Sunday, February 14, 2010
Cerebellum Corporation has released a line of Advanced Placement video tutorials covering four subjects – Chemistry, U.S. History, U.S. Government & Politics, and English Composition & Language. These video tutorials have the potential of helping the more than 1 million AP test takers this spring. Read More »
Website for Teachers Offers Expanded Research-Based Resources for In-School and Out-of-School Learning
International Reading Association — Sunday, February 14, 2010
Teachers and parents will find a one-stop-shop for standards-based classroom resources at the new-and-improved ReadWriteThink.org, the popular website developed by International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and Verizon Thinkfinity in 2002... Read More »
STEM Education Leaders Pearson and the Museum of Science's National Center for Technological Literacy® Partner To Support K-12 Education Innovations
Pearson — Saturday, February 13, 2010
Pearson and the National Center for Technological Literacy® at the Museum of Science, Boston today announced their plan to partner to offer customizable, integrated K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) solutions. Read More »
New Dell Services Unlock the Benefits of Digital Content for Students and Educators
Dell Inc. — Thursday, February 11, 2010
Dell today unveiled new services and relationships to advance the adoption of digital learning in U.S. classrooms. Dell’s Digital Content Adoption Services are designed to simplify and support educators and administrators with the integration of digital content into daily teaching practice. Read More »
Second Independent Study Reconfirms Statistically Significant Increase in Student Scores in Schools with Strong Usage of PD 360
School Improvement Network — Thursday, February 11, 2010
A new independent national study of 100 high-utilizing PD 360 schools shows dramatic and statistically significant improvement in student achievement in both math and reading. In this study only schools that reported a high use of PD 360 were analyzed. Read More »
