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Achieve —Monday, November 10, 2008
Achieve has launched a new resource to make the case that advanced mathematics coursework is central to student success and a strong U.S. economy. The research and materials provided in the Math Works toolkit support the ongoing policy shift in the states to include more rigorous mathematics standards for all high school graduates. Read more.
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McGraw-Hill Education —Monday, November 10, 2008
Pittsburgh students continue to make substantial gains in reading and mathematics achievement on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), according to the 2007-2008 student achievement results for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Read more.
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Scientific Learning Corp. —Saturday, November 08, 2008
Scientific Learning® announces that EdisonLearningTM, the nation's largest partner to public school districts and communities, has chosen the Fast ForWord® family of products to provide a research-based reading intervention program for Furman L. Templeton Elementary in Baltimore. Read more.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt —Saturday, November 08, 2008
The California State Board of Education unanimously approved all six of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,'s recommended reading/language arts and intervention programs specifically designed for California students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Read more.
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The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill —Saturday, November 08, 2008
The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (Grow), a national leader in educational assessment reporting and individualized instruction, launched the first in a series of Parent/Teacher Advisory Panels designed to promote family involvement in education. Read more.
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Scantron Corporation —Saturday, November 08, 2008
The agreement blends the core competencies of each organization — web-based assessment and real-time reporting combined with market-leading research and assessment development — to deliver a unique capability for analyzing multiple areas of student performance within a school district. Read more.
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SRA/McGraw-Hill —Saturday, November 08, 2008
The California State Board of Education has approved SRA/McGraw-Hill’s Imagine It! reading and language arts programs for Grades K–6 for the 2008 Reading/Language Arts–English-Language Development adoption list. Read more.
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Source: Southern Poverty Law Center —Saturday, November 08, 2008
Sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Teaching Tolerance program, Mix It Up encourages students to question and cross boundaries by sitting with someone new in the cafeteria for just one day. Many schools are planning activities for the whole day, and some use the event to kick off a yearlong exploration of social divisions. Read more.
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Pearson —Saturday, November 08, 2008
A new independent research study validates that students learning with Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMATH, the number one choice of school districts throughout the US this past year, outperform their peers using other math programs. Read more.
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