iParadigms, creators of Turnitin and the leader in originality checking and online grading, has been named the winner of the eSchool Media 2012 Readers’ Choice Award and the 2011 EdTech Digest Cool Tool Award.
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1/30/2012
Humansville R-VI School District in Missouri is experiencing an explosion in student achievement with student math proficiency scores increasing from a 26.9 percent proficiency rate to 40.1 percent with the help of PD 360.
1/30/2012
Lexia Learning announced that its Lexia Reading software program was honored with three significant awards from District Administration, eSchool News and EdTech Digest.
1/30/2012
Investigating Biology through Inquiry and Organic Chemistry with Vernier use real-world data to teach students key scientific concepts.
1/30/2012
The state Department of Education today released a best-to-worst ranking of Florida's 3,078 public schools - and a number of Palm Beach County schools made it to the top of the lists.
1/30/2012
Updated state rules mean that public schools in Michigan must offer all-day kindergarten to receive full funding for each kindergarten pupil starting in September.
1/30/2012
Jill Duffy of PCMag.com may have said it best: "Apple brings a spotlight with it everywhere it goes, and people pay attention to anything caught in its glow."
Rumors of the new and improved iBooks application began swirling weeks before Apple's anticipated announcement on Jan. 19, but perhaps no one was expecting the tidal wave of media coverage that proclaimed the company's venture into the textbook industry to be the Holy Grail of K12 learning. After all, iPads are hardly new, nor are their netbook predecessors or online learning material, for that matter.
1/30/2012
Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs, Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum Designers, Inc., will present at the 2012 School Improvement Innovation Summit July 16-17th.
1/30/2012
eBOARDsolutions is pleased to announce that their web-based suite of tools, eBOARD, has been selected by the Mid-Hudson Regional Information Center as the best tool for streamlining board of education operations to offer to their member districts and BOCES in New York.
1/30/2012
Chief, an industry leader in mounts, racks and interactive solutions, announces plans to release a new Fusion Series mobile video wall cart this spring.
1/30/2012
SimplexGrinnell, a Tyco International company and longtime leader in fire and life safety, announced the acquisition of privately held Certified Fire Protection, Inc., a leader in fire suppression in the greater Atlanta area for the past 20 years.
1/30/2012
Optoma has added interactive capabilities to one of its most popular short throw projectors, the TW610STi .
1/30/2012
Using version 11 of SMART Notebook collaborative learning software being released in spring 2012, StrataLogica will become the first web application to integrate with the latest version of the software used by SMART customers.
1/29/2012
There’s a new battle brewing in America’s classrooms, and while it doesn’t have the religious implications of the evolution vs. creationism debate, it has prompted several state legislatures and local school boards to get involved.
1/29/2012
Paul Howard-Jones thinks he knows the answer to a question that has long puzzled both parents and professors: Why is it that the same teenagers who turn sullen and despondent when faced with a half hour of learning French verbs or organic compounds are happy to spend hours mastering the computer game Minecraft’s physics engine or the counterfactual history in Call of Duty?
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