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Through the acquisition of Schoolnet, Inc., Pearson is the leading provider of instructional
improvement education software that increases student achievement, teacher quality
and operational efficiency.
The award-winning Schoolnet suite of data-driven education
software is the only unified solution to align student assessment, curriculum and
instruction; guide collaborative, data-informed discussion; and enable targeted
instruction for every student.
Pearson also sponsors the annual EduStat
University, the leading forum that brings together educators and policy-makers
to address how data-driven decision-making, talent management and other innovations
in K-12 education can impact performance now and throughout the 21st Century. Our
solutions are used successfully by many of the nation’s largest school districts
including Chicago Public Schools and the School District of Philadelphia.
Schoolnet has been recognized as the recipient of several CODiE Awards. Most recently,
Schoolnet was a finalist for the 2010 CODiE Awards for the Best Student Assessment
Solution. Following is a listing of the awards Schoolnet has won with links to our
press releases:
Schoolnet was founded in 1998 by Jonathan D. Harber and Denis P. Doyle, experts
on the convergence of education reform and technological advances. Harber, a visionary
developer of education technology, and Doyle, a former Assistant Director of the
National Institute of Education, recognized the problems inherent in utilizing disparate
technological platforms to meet a multitude of education challenges. Together, they
developed the Schoolnet Instructional Management Suite in order to streamline education
technology and create programs that were easily understood by educators.
In June 2011, Schoolnet was acquired by Pearson, the world’s leading learning company.
Schoolnet and Pearson share a common vision where we believe in learning – all kinds
of learning – for all kinds of students. Pearson offers world-class solutions for
K-12 education, including PowerSchool, Chancery SMS, PowerTeacher, and others. For more information on
Pearson, please click here.
Schoolnet’s Board of Advisors is comprised of many distinguished business, education,
policy, and technology experts who have been engaged to contribute to key strategic
initivatives and product direction over the past twelve years. These skilled and
thoughtful leaders have provided essential counsel as Schoolnet has established
itself as a market-leader in K12 educational technology, thereby helping educators
to use data to increase academic achievement.
John L. Anderson
John Anderson is currently a partner with Schoolhouse Partners, an education
consulting and investment group. He began his business career with IBM after graduating
from Yale University. Over a 30-year career he held positions in marketing, manufacturing
and development, and on the corporate staff, including serving as an assistant to
the IBM chairman of the board. With IBM he managed large marketing organizations
as well as corporate staffs. He was director, Governmental Programs-Education for
IBM in Washington, D.C., where he coordinated the activities of The Business Roundtable's
primary and secondary education initiative. He led the effort to mobilize members
of the Business Roundtable to form state based, business led organizations to support
public school reform. Following IBM he was named CEO and vice chairman of New American
Schools, a non-profit, bipartisan, public-private partnership dedicated to creating
and disseminating bold new designs for public schools. New American Schools’ designs
are working in over 4000 public schools nationwide.
Dr. Robert J. Andrzejewski
Dr. Robert J. Andrzejewski, a native Delawarean, has served the public
school system in the State of Delaware for 31 years as a teacher, assistant principal,
principal, assistant superintendent and superintendent. Dr. Andrzejewski has done
extensive work in the formative and summative assessment arenas. In his role as
Superintendent of the Red Clay Consolidated School District, he worked with school
leadership teams to implement a formative assessment system that supported teachers’
efforts to measure the academic growth of individual students over time in the critical
skill areas of reading and math. He also designed and implemented a Data-Driven
Leadership Training Academy that provided professional development opportunities
to assist school leadership teams in more effectively analyzing curriculum-embedded
assessment data.
Art Bardige
Art Bardige is the Founder and President of Enablearning: Art started developing
educational technology in 1968, creating images to tell stories on silent 3 minutes
of film using his background in teaching physics and field testing Harvard Project
Physics. He broadened his interest in math education as a math curriculum coordinator
while researching and writing a work on the history and theory of knowledge, The
Invention of Knowledge (www.artifacts.com). He bought an Apple II in 1978 and soon
started Learningways helping design and build interactive tools and platforms like
Explore-a-Story, Point of View, ProcessWriter, and MathProcessor. After selling
Learningways, he joined Simon & Schuster where he participated in much of their
educational software development. In 1999 he founded Enablearning, teaming up with
Larry Reeves and others to develop a next generation technology platform for learning,
the EnableMath Program. EnableMath (www.enablemath.com) has been successfully applied
in college developmental mathematics programs for the past several years, raising
success rates in these courses by more than 20%. Art's recent book, New Physical
Ideas Are Here Needed, outlines his proposal for a new technology of education,
one that will enable every student to achieve their educational goals.
William (Bill) C. Bosher, Jr.
Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Education Executive Director,
CEPI School of Education, Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs Virginia
Commonwealth University Bill Bosher is a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy
and Education and the Executive Director of the Commonwealth Policy Institute, a
legislative entity created to focus on research, training, and policy analysis.
In addition, he recently served three years as Dean of the School of Education at
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). He has been a teacher, principal, state
director, local superintendent of two districts with 35,000 to 50,000 students and
the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Commonwealth of Virginia (1,100,000
students).
Dr. Bruce S. Cooper
Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D. is Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership,
Administration, and Policy (ELAP) in the Graduate School of Education at Fordham
University. A graduate of the University of Chicago (Ph.D. ’74 and M.S. ’72), Dr.
Cooper has done extensive research on school finance, organization, policy, and
reform, working at Coopers & Lybrand in the development of the Insite finance
model, with Mayor Giuliani on analysis on school-site funding in NYC public schools,
and the decentralization of governance in the nation’s most centralized school system
(no local districts, boards, or superintendents). Cooper co-received a $1 million
grant to analyze organization and funding in six North American districts (NYC,
Chicago, LA, Edmonton, and Houston), looking at the relationship between funding,
management, and student achievement. He has served on the editorial boards of The
Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of School Leadership, and Policy and
Leadership in Schools. He has authored and coauthored 22 books, and over 275 articles,
chapters and papers, and serves these last years as national president of the Politics
of Education Association.
David DeSchryver
David DeSchryver has been an attorney with Brustein & Manasevit since
2006. Mr. DeSchryver analyzes the federal budget process, education legislation,
and important administrative actions to keep clients informed of activities in Washington
that affect their federal programs. He works with clients to develop their federal
compliance and legislative strategies, address technical legal matters and facilitates
their representation before Congress and administrative agencies. Mr. DeSchryver
has worked in education policy and practice for over 11 years. As a policy director
for The Center for Education Reform, he worked with state and federal legislators
to develop a wide variety of school improvement legislation. As a managing editor
and academic services manager at Schoolnet he wrote articles on school reform and
technology and used that work to help him to implement comprehensive instructional
management systems in urban schools and districts. Finally, as an NCLB program manager
for the DC Public Charter School Board, he worked with schools to understand NCLB
and to facilitate their school improvement programs.
Frederick M. Hess
Frederick M. Hess, AEI's director of education policy studies, is an educator,
political scientist, and author. At AEI, Mr. Hess studies a range of K-12 and higher
education issues. He has authored influential books such as Common Sense School
Reform, Revolution at the Margins, and Spinning Wheels. A former public high school
social studies teacher, he has also taught education and policy at universities
including Georgetown, Harvard, Rice, the University of Virginia, and the University
of Pennsylvania. He is executive editor of Education Next and a faculty associate
with Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance, and he serves on the
board of directors for the National Association of Charter School Authorizers and
on the review board for the Broad Prize in Urban Education.
Dr. Mike Hickey
Dr. Mike Hickey is the Naomi Price Hentz Distinguished Professor and the
Director of the Center for Leadership in Education (CLE) in the College of Education,
Towson University, Baltimore, MD. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Hickey served a
distinguished career as Superintendent of the Howard County Public School System
from 1984 – 2000. Before coming to Maryland, he served as Superintendent in the
St. Louis Park Schools, a suburb of Minneapolis, for eight years and as Assistant
Superintendent and Deputy Superintendent in Seattle, WA, for seven years. Dr. Hickey’s
primary areas of academic interest are leadership, change, data-driven improvement
of teaching and learning, and professional development, particularly the linkage
between leadership and the teaching/learning process. The Center for Leadership
in Education which he directs is committed to developing instructional leadership
capacity in schools and school systems across the state of Maryland and surrounding
regions. While the CLE’s primary audience is preK-12 educational institutions, the
Center also works with other educational and governmental organizations, public
policy makers, and organizations in the public sector.
James A. Kelly
James A. Kelly is co-director of the Strategic Management of Human Capital
(SMHC), a national program to achieve adoption of modern human capital management
practices in state and local public education systems. Beginning his career as a
public school teacher, Jim was Founding President and CEO of the National Board
for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS), where he helped to create National
Board Certification. Earlier he was on the faculty of Teachers College, Columbia
University, taught at Harvard University, was responsible for education policy at
the National Urban Coalition, and worked in Pakistan to help establish the Institute
of Education and Research at Punjab University. He has served as a senior advisor
and board member at numerous institutions including the World Bank, the National
Academy of Sciences, and Standard & Poors, the Consortium for Educational Policy
Research and the Board of Overseers of the Graduate School of Education at the University
of Pennsylvania. He is co-chairs Learning to Give, a non-profit project that has
developed over a thousand teaching units available free on the web to help teachers
and students learn about philanthropy, volunteerism and community service. He was
elected to membership in the National Academy of Education in 1999.
Arnold D. Oates
Dr. Arnold D. Oates earned his Ph. D. in Education Administration at Texas
A & M in 1966, where, after a rich and varied career in the private sector,
he has returned to teach. He also holds a B.S. in biology and chemistry form A &
M as well as an M. Ed., which he earned in 1960. In addition to his college teaching
experience, Dr. Oates has been the Superintendent of North East Independent School
District, San Antonio, Texas, Brazosport Independent School District, Freeport,
Texas, Greenville Independent School District, Greenville, Texas, Campbell County
Schools, Rustburg, Virginia. He was also principal of one of the nation’s most distinguished
high schools, T.C. Williams in Alexandria, VA.
Dr. Jonah E. Rockoff
Dr. Jonah E. Rockoff is Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business at
the Columbia Graduate School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National
Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Rockoff’s interests center on local public
finance and the economics of education. He has done research on the determinants
of property taxation and expenditure in local public school districts, the impact
of teachers and teacher certification on student achievement, and measuring the
effectiveness of educational policies such as charter schools, school accountability
systems, and teacher mentoring programs. His current work focuses on pre-employment
indicators of effective teachers, the characteristics of effective school principals,
and how information on teacher performance impacts school personnel decisions. He
received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2004 and a B.A. in Economics
from Amherst College.
Dr. Robert Pianta
Robert Pianta is the Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University
of Virginia. The Novartis Professor of Education and director of UVa's Center for
Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, Pianta and his team of education researchers
have proven what it takes to build effectiveness in the classroom and to improve
that teacher's effectiveness with specific supports and mentoring. The Classroom
Assessment Scoring System™ or CLASS™ is an observational measure that has been tested
and proven effective in several large national studies and is being utilized by
every Head Start program in the country, touching 50,000 teachers and over a half
a million students. The supports engineered to target and improve a teachers' effectiveness
in the classroom are administered through the MyTeachingPartner™ system.
Dr. Pianta received a B.S. and a M.A. in Special Education from the University of
Connecticut, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Minnesota, and began
his career as a special education teacher. He originally joined the Curry faculty
in 1986 and began his appointment as dean in 2007.
Schoolnet Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan D. Harber has been a visionary influence in education technology
for over 20 years.
In 1998, Jonathan created and founded Schoolnet, Inc. with the goal of
helping school systems use data to increase academic achievement. Today, his
vision is helping school districts to close achievement gaps by creating more efficient
curriculum, instruction, assessment and professional development for K-12 communities.
Through his extensive experience in the educational space, Jonathan has become a
dynamic and frequent speaker on the topics of education reform, the use of technology
in education, as well as entrepreneurship in both peer to peer and university settings.
A native New Yorker, Jonathan lives in New York City with his wife, daughter, and
two sons.
Education
Jonathan received a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in Cognitive Science
from Wesleyan University and completed his thesis on artificial intelligence programming
applied to student advising. He completed his master's thesis on multimedia case
study for higher education at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School.
Work History
Prior to launching Schoolnet, Jonathan was the Founder and President of
KinderActive, a children's educational software company, and winner of the prestigious
Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Awards. He also co-founded and served as Chairman
of NewKidCo (acquired by SoftQuad in 1998), the first company to develop and market
children's educational video games. Jonathan was the Co-founder and President of
Diva, a publisher of multimedia authoring software used by students and teachers
to develop multimedia projects. Diva sold over one million units around the world
and was acquired by Avid (Nasdaq: AVID) Technology, the world's leader in digital
media technology, concurrent with its IPO.
When acquired by Pearson, Schoolnet served over 300 American cities, educating over
four million students. As a result of Jonathan's leadership and passion, Schoolnet
was a finalist for ten CODiE awards, recognized twice by INC. Magazine's Inc500
Award, and three times by Deloitte's Fast 50 Award. In 2007, Ernst & Young recognized
Jonathan with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the New York
region.
Upon joining Pearson, Jonathan has assumed the role as CEO of Pearson’s K-12 Education
Technology division, which oversees instructional management, student information
and grade book solutions.
Board Memberships
Jonathan serves on the board of New York City Outward Bound as the Chairman
of the Schools Committee. Through a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant, in
partnership with the New York City Department of Education, New York City Outward
Bound implements the Expeditionary Learning Model to bring engaging learning
to scale in underserved areas of New York City. For ten years, Jonathan served on
the board of Trail Blazers, a not-for-profit organization that offers an outdoor
experiential science and summer literacy program for inner-city children from New
York and Newark.
President, Schoolnet
Mark Chernis joined The Princeton Review in 1984 and served as the company’s Chief
Operating Officer and Secretary beginning in 1995. In August 2000, he added the
position of company President to his responsibilities. During his 24 year career
at The Princeton Review, Mark either held or oversaw key leadership positions in
nearly every sector of the company, including information technology, human resources,
operations, product development and each of Princeton Review’s three operating divisions.
Over the years he orchestrated more than 15 corporate acquisitions, sat on several
corporate boards – including Schoolnet, Inc., and was instrumental in Princeton
Review’s IPO in June of 2001.
Mark joined Schoolnet, Inc. in 2008 as President and COO. Upon Pearson’s acquisition
of Schoolnet, Mark became the Chief Operating Officer of Pearson’s K-12 Education
Technology division.
Mark attended Vassar College and now lives in Bedford, NY where he is a twice publicly
elected member of the Board of Education for the Bedford Central School District.
Mark also serves as a Board member at 2tor Inc. an education company partnering
with preeminent institutions of higher education to deliver rigorous, selective
degree programs online. 2Tor’s first industry partnership is with the University
of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education to offer an online Master of
Arts in Teaching degree.
Chief Financial Officer, Schoolnet
President, School Systems
Paul Fletcher is the President of School Systems, and manages the overall
School Systems business. Paul joined School Systems in 2007, bringing a wealth of
business experience, a track record of leadership and results, and great energy
to his work. Paul joined Pearson from Intel, where he had a ten-year career spanning
six Intel divisions and made an impact on Intel's strategy, organizational development,
effectiveness and business growth.
Chief Product Officer, Schoolnet
Luyen Chou is Chief Product Officer at Pearson. In this capacity, Luyen is responsible
for product strategy, development, and operations for new and existing products.
Luyen joined Pearson via the acquisition of Schoolnet. Prior to joining Schoolnet,
Luyen Chou was the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Learning and
Teaching, and the Associate Head of The School at Columbia University – an independent
K-8 laboratory school on the campus of Columbia University in New York City. Before
working at Columbia University, Luyen was Founder, President, and CEO of Learn Technologies
Interactive, Inc. (LearnTech), a New York-based company that develops innovative
educational software tools and applications.
Prior to founding LearnTech, Luyen served as Director of the New Laboratory for
Teaching and Learning at The Dalton School in New York City. Luyen also taught high
school philosophy, history, and multimedia; and developed an award-winning curriculum
on New York City during the Civil War.
Luyen joined Schoolnet in 2006 as Senior Vice President, Global Networks. He has
written articles on education technology and on interactive design and lectured
on these subjects at Columbia University, MIT, Stanford University, the U.S. Library
of Congress, TED Conference, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
(ASCD), and many other venues. Luyen has consulted extensively for schools and universities
around the world as well as for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including:
George Lucas Educational Foundation, The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Inc., ICL (Fujitsu,
UK) Ltd., PBS, and WNET.
Schoolnet’s Instructional Improvement System (IIS) has been developed
to ensure that our K-12 district customers meet their most important educational
and instructional needs. Pearson believes that a key requirement for any successful
IIS implementation is tight integration with other technology, content, and service
providers.
Pearson forms close partnerships with best-in-breed providers of education technologies,
content, and services, who recognize Pearson as the premier provider of Instructional
Management Solutions for K-12 school districts, and who share our company values
– especially our commitment to improving student achievement through use of technology
and data.
Pearson partners with industry experts to leverage their technologies, best practices,
and business successes, thereby enhancing the integrated experience for school district
administrators, faculty, and students. The products and services of our partner
companies complement and enhance the Schoolnet suite of products, allowing us to
offer a comprehensive, user-friendly solution capable of supplying all our school
district's educational technology needs.
See our:
Services Partners
Organizational Partners
Strategic Partners
Synchronized Partners
Interested in becoming a Pearson Partner?
Email corpdev@Schoolnet.com
Pearson forms partnerships with market leaders in educational and information
technology services in order to provide our districts with a range of consultative
options. While needs vary from district to district, our partners' goal is always
the same: To increase the readiness of a district or state to take full advantage
of data-driven decision-making with the Schoolnet solutions. A crucial step in developing
a successful implementation model is to provide on-going comprehensive professional
development and academic services. Pearson’s service partners deliver high-quality
programs that are customized to meet each district's unique needs.
iSphere
iSphere is a Texas-based IT services firm with a specialized focus on IT consulting
and staffing solutions for the education industry. For more than 10 years, iSphere
has worked with clients to manage student information data warehousing, project
management of data and functional migration between existing and new Student Information
Systems, RFP processes from start to finish, development of custom applications,
human capital consultation and workforce management solutions, as well as security,
compliance and infrastructure planning, building and optimization. For more information
on iSphere, click here.
Pearson is a proud member and sponsor of many thought-leading organizations that
help advance our shared beliefs that all children can learn, and that data can be
used to improve student achievement and empower teachers to enhance their practices.
Listed below are organizations that Pearson proudly maintains membership in, and
which share our goals of improving the world’s education systems.
AASA
The American Association of School Administrators, founded in 1865, is the professional
organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders in the United States and throughout
the world. AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and
senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school
system leaders. For more information about AASA, click
here.
ALAS
ALAS is the national Association of Latino Superintendents and Administrators. ALAS
was created by a group of Latino superintendents and administrators who met through
the spring of 2003 to discuss the organizational structure, philosophy and goals
of forming a national organization. The organizing members received support from
the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), the California Latino
Superintendents' Association (CALSA), and the Association of California School Administrators
(ACSA). For more information about ALAS, click here.
CCSSO
The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nationwide, nonpartisan,
and nonprofit membership organization - the only one of its kind to bring together
the top education leaders from every state in the nation. The chief state school
officers are committed to creating a public education system that prepares every
child for lifelong learning, work, and citizenship. CCSSO's promise is to lead chiefs
and their organizations in this effort by focusing on those state-driven leverage
points they are uniquely positioned to address-and increasing their capacity to
produce students ready to succeed as productive members of society. For more information
about CCSSO, click here.
CGCS
The Council of the Great City Schools is a coalition of 66 of the nation's largest
urban public school systems. Founded in 1956 and incorporated in 1961, the Council
is located in Washington, D.C., where it works to promote urban education through
legislation, research, media relations, instruction, management, technology, and
other special projects designed to improve the quality of urban education. The Council
serves as the national voice for urban educators, providing ways to share promising
practices and address common concerns. The organization is served by a staff of
about 20 professionals who coordinate the work of the Council, arrange conferences,
conduct studies, and collaborate with other national organizations, government agencies,
and corporations. For more information about CGCS, click here.
ECS
The mission of the Education Commission of the States is to help states
develop effective policy and practice for public education by providing data, research,
analysis and leadership; and by facilitating collaboration, the exchange of ideas
among the states and long-range strategic thinking. For more information about ECS,
click here.
NSBA
Founded in 1940, The National School Boards Association is a national federation
of state school boards associations that represent more than 95,000 school board
members. These members govern the nation's 14,890 local school districts serving
more than 47 million public school students. The organization's mission is to foster
excellence and equity in public elementary and secondary education throughout the
United States through local school board leadership. For more information about
NSBA, click here.
SETDA
The State Educational Technology Directors Association is the principal association
representing the state directors for educational technology. SETDA promotes national
leadership in educational technology to support achievement in lifelong learning,
provides professional development for state educational technology directors and
builds partnerships to advance learning opportunities and improve student achievement
through technology. The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA)
is the principal association for state directors of technology and their staff members.
For more information about SEDTA, click
here.
SIF
The Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) is a non-profit membership organization
comprised of over 100 software vendors, school districts, state departments of education
and other organizations active in primary and secondary (K-12) markets, who have
come together to create a set of rules and definitions to enable software programs
from different companies to share information. This set of platform independent,
vendor neutral rules and definitions is called the "SIF Implementation Specification."
Pearson has been a member of the SIF organization for more than three years, and
provides a SIF Compliant Agent to participating school districts who request it.
This Agent makes it possible to share data without any additional programming by
the local school or district and without requiring vendors to learn and support
the intricacies of other vendors' applications. For more information about SIF, click here.
Pearson forms Strategic Partnerships with market leaders in technology and education
in order to leverage their technologies, best practices, and business successes.
We believe that “best attracts best” and these companies have selected Pearson as
a market leader in providing valuable products and services to K-12 school districts.
Academic Benchmarks
Academic Benchmarks is K-12 education's preferred source of reliable standards data
and quality alignment services to state, national, and international standards.
Academic Benchmarks was conceived on the idea that every stakeholder of K-12 education
should have access to up-to-date standards and easy-to-use tools that work from
the most granular level to help the schools, teachers, and companies align their
curriculum, assessment, instruction, and reporting efforts to those standards. For
more information about Academic Benchmarks,
click here.
Intel
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer,
networking and communications products. Intel's Teach to the Future is a worldwide
program created for teachers, by teachers, to help them effectively integrate technology
into the classroom to enhance student learning. Intel is committed to playing a
positive role in preparing our youth for the demands of tomorrow. Pearson is a member
of Intel's Managed Learning System framework, an open-standards-based approach to
building and deploying plug-and-play learning communities of tomorrow. For more
information about Intel, click
here.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions
that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft's vision
for Education is to enable a community of students, educators and life-long learners
to realize their full potential. Microsoft's Partners in Learning initiative focuses
on projects aimed at addressing student achievement and developing a more competitive
21st-century work force. Pearson partners with Microsoft to deliver our technology
platform - using Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000, Class Server, and .NET -
to deliver a scalable, secure, and flexible solution to school district customers
nationwide. For more information about Microsoft, click here.
The Synchronized Partners Program enables K-12 software and content companies to
integrate their solutions with the Schoolnet market-leading School Performance Management
Solutions.
By synchronizing solutions with Schoolnet, publishers, assessment providers, learning
management systems and other solution providers can support the needs of leading
districts implementing a unified platform that brings together all of their third-party
content and applications. In turn, Schoolnet Synchronized partners get the opportunity
to be part of a broader suite of integrated solutions with which districts can accelerate
student achievement and school improvement.
NWEA (formerly ETS)
NWEA is a global not-for-profit educational services organization with home offices
in Portland, Oregon. NWEA partners with educational organizations worldwide to provide
computer-based assessment suites, professional development and research services.
Our Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP®) adaptive assessments leverage more than
30 years of research into student growth that informs decision-making at every level,
from classrooms to boardrooms. Learn more at www.nwea.org.
Intel-Assess
Intel-Assess was founded in 2006 to provide formative assessment solutions that
enable educators to use data to drive student achievement. Intel-Assess helps students
master key state-defined learning skills by identifying where they do not meet standards
and providing information needed for a targeted intervention program. The Intel-Assess
solution includes high-quality assessment content and services to serve as the foundation
for a district's formative assessment program. To learn more about Intel-Assess,
click here.
Kaplan K-12 Learning Services
Kaplan K-12 offers research-based, proven effective programs that help schools build
proficiency to meet state standards, improve performance rate on state tests, and
demonstrate the Adequate Yearly Progress required by No Child Left Behind. More
and more, schools are discovering the key to improved results and adequate yearly
progress - intense individual intervention with the lowest performing students.
Kaplan K-12 partners with schools to provide this kind of focused remediation, enabling
all students to achieve. Pearson’s partnership with Kaplan enables school districts
to deliver benchmark assessments through Schoolnet that are correlated to improve
results on high-stakes state tests in math and reading for grades 3-12. By providing
individualized assessment, immediate skills analysis, and tailored educational resources,
homeroom offers administrators, teachers, and parents a powerful new way to support
student learning. For more information about Kaplan, click here.
Media-X
Media-X Systems, Inc. is a software development company with headquarters
in Ottawa, Ontario. The company develops education-related software for K-12 schools
and post-secondary institutions, focused on curriculum planning, standards-based
assessment, staff performance appraisals, data analysis and student management.
Media-X has extensive experience with web, desktop and mobile (handheld PDA) software
development. For more information about Media-X, click here.
With a mission to improve the world’s education systems, Pearson partners with public
school districts to use data to increase achievement and efficiency. Pearson’s award
winning products benefit millions of students across the country in large
urban areas such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Albuquerque, and Atlanta.
Supplementing the Schoolnet enterprise solution is a global portal to the best information
on K-12 education including blogs, wikis, rankings, social bookmarking and other
social networking tools that allow K-12 educators, parents and students to collaborate
and share knowledge.
As a dynamic and rapidly growing company, Pearson is seeking talented, dedicated
people to join our team. Pearson staff come from a variety of backgrounds yet we
all share some essential qualities, the most important being a passion for education
and the enabling power of technology.
Do you know somebody whom you feel would be interested in joining our team? Please
refer
him/her to us!
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