Calvert School Education Services Selects Arbortext to Publish Curriculum.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2004 Arbortext, the leading global provider of automated publishing software, today announced that Calvert School Calvert School is a kindergarten through 8th grade co-ed school for students in Baltimore, Maryland. The school uses a unique curriculum and has a homeschooling division which administers the curriculum shipped to families around the country and all over the world. Education Services has selected its software to create and deliver customized lessons, workbooks and other materials to students, educators, parents and administrators. As a result, Calvert expects to expand course and service offerings. Using Arbortext software as the foundation, Calvert School is planning to create a Student Information System (SIS). Expected to be operational later this year, the SIS will enhance the students' academic experience by providing online access to complement Calvert's curriculum. "We are excited to work with Arbortext and believe their demonstrated expertise in automated publishing will quickly improve Calvert School's operations," said Jean C. Halle, President of Calvert School Education Services, which provides curriculum to homeschools, charter schools, cyber schools and other educational institutions. "The new systems will allow Calvert to expand the course and service offerings we provide." "Arbortext is pleased to be working with Calvert. When students, educators and parents are able to support each child's unique strengths, that child's academic experience is more rewarding," said Raymond Schiavone, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for Arbortext. "Arbortext's ability to automate the process of assembling and publishing content makes our software especially useful to school systems that must publish fresh and accurate educational materials to a number of audiences with varying needs. We look forward to working with Calvert as they continue to enhance their comprehensive education services offerings." About Calvert School Since 1906, Calvert School, a not-for-profit organization located in Baltimore City, Maryland, has been providing students from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade with a complete, integrated, and accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. curriculum that leaves no gaps in instruction. Calvert's detailed, step-by-step lessons are based on Calvert School's classroom instruction. The time-tested Calvert program inspires children to reach their full academic potential and helps parents be effective home teachers. In addition to the Calvert home schooling home schooling, the practice of teaching children in the home as an alternative to attending public or private elementary or high school. In most cases, one or both of the children's parents serve as the teachers. program, Calvert's lessons have been employed successfully in classroom settings throughout the world for more than 60 years. During the last decade, more than 186,000 students have used the Calvert School program. About Arbortext Arbortext is the leading global provider of automated publishing software that enables organizations to provide more personalized, dynamic and easily searchable content for Web, mobile and print usage. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,400 organizations worldwide. Current customers include American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Financial Services, Audi, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson Telecom, Ford, General Electric, GM, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , International Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, PeopleSoft, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen and Volvo. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , USA, Arbortext has offices around the world. For more information, please visit www.arbortext.com. |
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