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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. She first discovered Open Up Resources in 2016 and rolled out its K-8 English curriculum for the 215 students at her school in the fall of the following year. million in investment to date.

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Pearson Is Selling Its US K-12 Business—Despite Posting a Profit and Digital Growth

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portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. billion loss in 2016. higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S. Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. The rest came from non-digital offerings.

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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New Efficacy Research Demonstrates Curriculum Associates’ Ready® Meets Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Federal Funding Requirements, Including School Improvement Funds

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Most importantly, research confirms that students who have access to Ready instruction outperform their peers on state summative English language arts and mathematics assessments. Ready has long been a leader in introducing rigor and quality materials into classrooms,” said Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates. “As

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3 tenets for developing cultural competency in schools

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This is in large part due to a shift in the demographic makeup of the student population (non-white students are expected to make up the majority of public schools by 2024) while the demographic makeup of the teaching workforce remains constant ( 80 percent of teachers during the 2015-2016 school year were white).

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Curriculum Associates Named One of the 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies and One of the Largest Private Companies in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal

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Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. With a focus on reading and mathematics, the company offers an integrated print and digital solution for K–12 diagnostic assessment and K–8 instruction, making blended learning a reality in the classroom.

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Utah State Board of Education Approves Lexia Reading Core5 as K–3 Reading Improvement Program

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(NYSE: RST) Company, today announced that Lexia Reading Core5® has been named by the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) as an approved provider of early interactive reading software for literacy instruction and assessment for grades K–3.