Curriculum Advantage and Edusoft Partnership Empowers Educators to Create Individual Learning Plans with Classworks
Los Angeles - March 31, 2005 - Curriculum Advantage, Inc. announced today a partnership with Edusoft® that offers educators a powerful tool to track student performance on district and state assessment tests and leverage that information to create individual Classworks learning plans tailored to a student's particular needs. Classworks is Curriculum Advantage's network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools, and Edusoft is a leading standards-based assessment platform provider.
The partnership will enable educators to maximize a student's opportunity to score well on their next high stakes test by using Classworks' internal benchmark tests to further assess each student's proficiency in mathematics and reading.
"We're excited about our partnership with Edusoft as it further enhances the relevance of our Classworks curriculum," said Lindsey Cook, president of Curriculum Advantage. "Not only are we able to give teachers advanced control over information, but we are providing them with more ways to utilize that information to improve student performance."
"The combination of Classworks' teaching activities with Edusoft's assessment capabilities is a key component toward making formative assessment a powerful tool for improving student learning," said Iwan Streichenberger, president of Edusoft. "The seamless interaction between our best-of-breed products empower educators to make a significant difference in the classroom by successfully connecting performance data directly to individualized instruction."
Classworks (www.curriculumadvantage.com) includes 8,600 learning activities from dozens of favorite educational software programs, all of which are correlated with National Education Standards in math and language arts. Classworks State Editions are further aligned to the learning standards of 15 states so that teachers can more closely tie their teaching to the core concepts and competencies prescribed by their state.
Edusoft's web-based assessment platform allows teachers to manage, organize and analyze student data to help them reach their goals and improve student performance. Based on the vision of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Edusoft gives educators tools to make data-driven decisions about students and classrooms. The patent-pending Edusoft assessment platform helps with the creation of paper exams, automates the grading process, provides deep analysis of test scores, and finally helps educators adjust instruction based on this analysis.
Classworks is a recognized reading resource worthy of purchase using Title II, Part D funds as allocated by NCLB. Classworks is also aligned with the five key components of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, as defined by the National Institute for Literacy and the Partnership for Reading. New content for English as a second language ( ESL) and English Language Learners (ELL) is being added to help students who are new to the English language. Sixty hours of algebra and pre-algebra resources have also been added to a new Algebra Series for Classworks.
About Curriculum Advantage
Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) has offices in Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; and Wayne, Neb. Curriculum Advantage's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that currently comprise over 3,000 hours of curriculum. Classworks activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and state tests. They include prescriptive and summative assessment, remediation and reporting tools. Classworks is installed in 2,000 schools in the United States and worldwide. INET Classroom, also from Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based curriculum linked to state and national standards.
About Edusoft
Edusoft offers the only proven standards-based assessment platform to enable public schools immediate access to online student performance results and customized instructional tools based on the automatic scoring of plain paper answer sheets. Edusoft, a division of Houghton Mifflin Assessment Group, is headquartered in San Francisco. Additional information on Edusoft and its products can be obtained at 866-4-EDUSOFT or www.edusoft.com.
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