Classworks from Curriculum Advantage, Inc. Now Includes Credit Recovery Program.ATLANTA -- High school students across the Southeast states have a new way to earn course credit for missed or failed classes thanks to Curriculum Advantage, Inc., publishers of Classworks -- a network-based reading and mathematics curriculum. Curriculum Advantage, Inc. created a Classworks Credit Recovery Program for high school students. "With our purchase of Classworks, we are excited to use it as a remediation curriculum for struggling students," said Bob Barnes Bob Barnes is an American comic strip artist. His work includes:
Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . "We are also planning to use the credit recovery program to provide our students one more way to benefit from this powerful instructional software." Curriculum Advantage, Inc. developed the credit recovery courses using its award-winning Classworks and INET INET Internet INET Intranet INET International Networking (conference) INET Institutional Network (Hawaii Department of Education) INET Instinet LLC iNET Integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry Classroom content. The courses now correspond with required high school course requirements in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Students in those states who complete the Classworks Credit Recovery Program will have met or exceeded each state's course objectives and are eligible to earn credits toward graduation. "We hear frequently from superintendents about the challenges of retaining struggling high school students," said Mr. Lindsey Cook, 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. of Curriculum Advantage, Inc. "This program is designed to motivate those students by providing engaging software that helps students successfully graduate from high school." Current Classworks users can start using Classworks Credit Recovery right away. With their unlimited site license, credit recovery can be added to other implementation practices, further helping each user meet their student achievement goals. Classworks (www.curriculumadvantage.com) is a network-based solution of reading and mathematics curriculum used in K-12 grades and includes 10,881 learning activities from dozens of award-winning educational software programs, all of which are correlated with National Education Standards. Classworks State Editions are further aligned to state learning standards Learning Standards is a term used to describe standards applied to education content, particularly in the US K-12 space. The Learning Standards themselves can can be found on the individual web sites for states [1] and test objectives allowing teachers to more closely tie their teaching to the core concepts and competencies prescribed by their state. Classworks was recognized by the Software and Information Industry Association According to its mission statement, "the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. (SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property ) 2006 Codie Awards as the Best Instructional Solution in the Language Arts/Reading category for elementary grade products. The company was named Newcomer of the Year as a leading company in tune with K-12 educators' needs. Classworks has been so well received by the education community that leading education organizations in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Alabama and South Carolina have endorsed the program. About Curriculum Advantage Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) is based in Atlanta, Georgia with a satellite office in Wayne, Neb. Curriculum Advantage, Inc.'s flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that currently comprise over 5,000 hours of curriculum. Classworks activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and state tests. They include prescriptive and summative assessment Summative assessment (or Summative evaluation) refers to the assessment of the learning and summarises the development of learners at a particular time. After a period of work, e.g. , remediation and reporting tools. Classworks is installed in 3,000 schools in the United States and worldwide. INET Classroom, also from Curriculum Advantage, Inc., is a comprehensive library of web-based curriculum linked to state and national standards. |
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