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Voyager Learning Company —Sunday, November 30, 2008
Voyager Expanded Learning(R) announced today that the number of students accessing its online reading and math programs continues to climb, particularly during after school hours and on weekends. Read more.
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Atomic Learning, Inc. —Sunday, November 30, 2008
Atomic Learning recently launched Tech Skills Assessment—a new feature of the popular Technology Skills Collection of online technology training tutorials. Tech Skills Assessment meets the need of many educators and schools that are currently struggling to measure and record students’ tech literacy comprehension levels. Read more.
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Past4Ward, LLC —Sunday, November 30, 2008
Past4Ward, LLC, an Atlanta-based startup, has licensed the exclusive rights to use Rome Reborn, an interactive 3D model of the ancient, historic city, for the first module of its game-based supplemental education platform as well as video game applications Read more.
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SMART Technologies —Sunday, November 30, 2008
SMART Technologies announces that researchers at the University of Virginia have concluded that SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards can reduce teacher nervousness, increase lesson effectiveness and improve student learning outcomes when used with appropriate pedagogy and digital resources. Read more.
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The Pearson Foundation —Sunday, November 30, 2008
The more than 50 films, each entitled "Why I Teach," showcase the personal motivations, challenges, and successes of this year's 2008 CCSSO Teacher of the Year honorees. These testimonies present in these exemplary educators' own words their personal reasons for choosing teaching as a career. Read more.
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Glencoe/McGraw-Hill —Sunday, November 30, 2008
Glencoe Literature has gained many fans in Alabama, where 52 percent of the state's market adopted the program for the 2008-2009 school year. The skills and strategies in the new inquiry-based program specifically align to Alabama state standards, enabling students to retain what they learn. Read more.
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Macmillan/McGraw-Hill —Sunday, November 30, 2008
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's California Treasures, an all-new research based elementary reading and language arts curriculum, features an integrated professional development program to help teachers meet the diverse needs of California students. Read more.
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SMART Technologies —Thursday, November 27, 2008
SMART Technologies announces the third generation SMART Board™ 600i interactive whiteboard system. The new product line offers two screen formats - widescreen (16:10 aspect ratio) and standard (4:3 aspect ratio). Read more.
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Atomic Learning, Inc. —Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Atomic Learning recently correlated their Technology Skills Collection of technology resources to the updated ISTE NETS-S 2007. Atomic Learning worked with an independent assessment company to correlate the Atomic Learning tutorial library and Lesson Accelerators to the ISTE NETS-S 2007 framework. Read more.
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Lawson Software —Monday, November 24, 2008
The Fresno Unified School District licensed the Lawson Human Resource Management Suite and the Lawson S3 System Foundation, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Process Management and Learning Accelerator Suites. The district will use the software to help support data-driven decision making... Read more.
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