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Industry Roundup - The Latest News from AEP Members
Coughlan Companies Names New CEO - 9/17/07
G. Thomas Ahern has been named Chief Executive Officer of Coughlan
Companies Inc., which includes Coughlan Publishing, an internationally
recognized producer of children's books, and Mankato-Kasota Stone,
a quarrying and sales business. The businesses operate in Bloomington
and Mankato, MN.
Ministry of Education-Malaysia Provides iNSIGHT Scanners to Primary
and Secondary Schools - 9/12/07
Pearson announced that the Ministry
of Education-Malaysia is providing its schools with the company's
iNSIGHT(tm) optical mark read (OMR) scanners to support student
data collection activities. The southeast Asian country is purchasing
1,240 of the desktop scanners for its primary and secondary schools.
Upgrade of InspireData Expands Tools for Using Visual Learning
to Build Data Literacy Skills - 9/12/07
Inspiration Software released
InspireData(tm) 1.5, the first upgrade to the software for dynamically
exploring and understanding data. With InspireData, students in
grades 4-12 use visual learning to build critical data literacy
skills by actively exploring and analyzing data using Venn diagrams
and bar, stack, pie and axis plots to interpret information and
draw conclusions.
Constitution Day Comes to Life with ABC-CLIO's "History in
the Headlines" - 9/12/07
Constitution Day is Sept.
17, and students and teachers nationwide will have the opportunity
to explore the evolving story of the U.S. Constitution and the
role it plays in our lives with today's launch of "History and the Headlines: Constitution Day," the
first in the fall 2007 line-up of ABC-CLIO's popular series of
free, timely, online history reference and activity collections.
Philadelphia, San Francisco Public School Districts Commit to
Providing Educators and Students Effective Digital Resource - 9/10/07
Both the Philadelphia Public School District and the San Francisco
Unified School District have committed to offer educators and students
Discovery Education streaming. The only digital video-based learning
resource scientifically proven to increase academic achievement,
Discovery Education streaming will enhance local educators' curriculum
with digital media and engage the YouTube generation on their level.
Questions, ideas, or
in need of more information? Please contact Stacey
Pusey at 302-295-8349.
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