McGraw-Hill Education acquires TurnLeaf Solutions.

McGraw-Hill Education (New York) has acquired TurnLeaf Solutions Inc. (Littleton, CO), a national provider of customized online reporting and data analysis. No terms of the deal were given. TurnLeaf products are designed to assist administrators and teachers track progress toward school districts' Adequate Yearly Progress goals, a key provision in the No Child Left Behind law. TurnLeaf will become a part of M-H Education's Global Network, a provider of assessment reports and customized instructional materials.

McGraw-Hill said that TurnLeaf's technology strengthens its Assessment and Reporting businesses by enabling them to provide school districts with more detailed student performance data that can be analyzed and compared for reporting purposes. These businesses include CTB/McGraw-Hill, a provider of assessment services for the K-12 market; The Grow Network and McGraw-Hill Digital Learning, a provider of research-based, standards-aligned solutions designed to improve instruction and student performance. TurnLeaf's reporting services have been integrated into CTB's offerings through a strategic partnership between the two businesses over the past two years.

"Student testing mandated by NCLB generates massive amounts of data, and educators require new methods for managing this information and using it to enhance student achievement," said Henry Hirschberg, president of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.