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Irving ISD Boosts Student Achievement, State Assessment Scores With PASeries Reading From Pearson

Another great story for PASeries in Irving, Texas which is a large urban district in suburban Dallas, that serves more than 33,000 students in 20 elementary schools, seven middle schools and four high schools. Susan Ramos, elementary language arts coordinator for the district said the district was looking for a way to identify students who need extra help and flag problem areas that might be missed in the daily bustle of the classroom, PASeries Reading is helping the district achieve that goal and more.

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WriteToLearn 5.0 Debuts

March 7th, 2008 WriteToLearn™ 5.0 debuts with new capabilities that make it an even more powerful tool for helping students build literacy skills.

With the new text-to-speech capabilities in WriteToLearn 5.0, students can have the hundreds of reading passages in WriteToLearn read aloud to them, a particularly useful feature for struggling readers or English language learners. Using the added dictionary and spot word translation ability in WriteToLearn 5.0, students can also instantly retrieve the dictionary definition or Spanish translation of any word in a reading passage.

The new teacher comment feature in WriteToLearn 5.0 takes the assessment tool to the next level, providing students with direct feedback from their teacher. Teachers can easily add a comment on an essay or summary, and students can view them when they review the summary or essay scoreboard.

Visit our website at www.WriteToLearn.net to experience a WriteToLearn demo.

12 cheers for Pearson Codie finalists

Twelve Pearson products were named as finalists in this year's (SIIA) CODiE Awards.

Honors for Pearson's products span the award program's software, content and education categories. In addition to WriteToLearn, PASeries and Pearson Inform 4.1 of which are part of our larger portfolio of interim and benchmark assessments, the Pearson products recognized this year are eCollege, ELLIS, FamilyEducation, KnowledgeBox, NovaNET, PowerSchool Premier, SuccessMaker Enterprise, Waterford Early Learning-Math and Science and Waterford Early Learning-Reading.

Congratulations to our award winners!

Learn more about our interim and benchmark products at http://www.FormativeAssessments.com

Pre-built benchmark tests

Do you have Title I funds and find yourself wanting to know more about your student's progress and wish you could forecast their achievement on standards?

Here's a chance to learn how our interim and progress assessment can help you identify your students' strengths and weaknesses now, and how your teachers and families can help them achieve.


Register to find out more by attending a FREE PASeries webinar at www.PASeries.com/webinar.