PreK-12 Market Headlines
Arizona, Indiana Join Colorado In Multi-State Growth Model Collaboration
Colorado Department of Education — Monday, March 08, 2010
According to formal agreements signed by the new partners, the state departments of education in Colorado, Indiana and Arizona have committed to a collaborative effort to adopt a common student longitudinal growth measure and to use the interactive visual displays for the data. Read More »
Carmel Clay Schools Use Pinnacle Insight for Immediate Decision-Making
GlobalScholar — Monday, March 08, 2010
District administrators at Carmel Clay Schools, Ind., are empowering staff, school building administrators and educators to improve instruction through immediate access to reliable student data available through Pinnacle Insight from GlobalScholar. Read More »
New English Language Development Products from Ballard & Tighe
Ballard & Tighe, Publishers — Monday, March 08, 2010
With a focus on English language development products, Ballard & Tighe’s product offering includes Carousel of IDEAS (K-5) and Champion of IDEAS (6-12) ELD programs as well as the IPT® Testing System that is used to identify, place, and redesignate students based on ... demographic norming data. Read More »
Pearson Foundation Releases New Research on Digital Literacy Among Young Children
Pearson Foundation — Saturday, March 06, 2010
"The Digital World of Young Children: Emergent Literacy" examines the latest research on how young children learn using increasingly personalized and mobile media, including cell phones, television, video games, smart devices, and computers Read More »
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 »
