Thursday, December 13, 2012

Study Island Recognized With Industry Awards

By Lauren Williams Tuesday, December 11, 2012 http://www.districtadministration.com/news/study-island-recognized-industry-awards


Edmentum™, a leading provider of online learning solutions, has been recognized for its Study Island learning solution in District Administration and Tech & Learning magazines’ annual awards. Study Island was included in the District Administration Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products of 2012 and received a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence in the Best Upgraded Product category. Study Island is a standards mastery and test-preparation program, specifically designed to help students master the content specified in state and Common Core standards.
“Students at more than 20,000 schools use our Study Island learning solution, and we are very honored it was recognized with these two awards,” said Andy Frost, vice president of product management for Edmentum. “Our number one priority is to support schools and students through our quality academic content, extensive teacher resources and engaging user experiences. We are pleased to be receiving these awards and will continue to enhance our products to meet the needs of the 21st century classroom."

District Administration is read by more than 73,000 K-12 school district leaders across the country and a record number of them participated in selecting the 2012 Top 100 Products winners. The Top 100 winners include a wide variety of products, such as software and hardware, products that will help build and secure districts, and those that will streamline a district’s ever-changing technology functions. The list also includes programs that will help improve learner reading, writing, science and math comprehension, as well as products that help evaluate and analyze their growth.

The Tech & Learning Best Upgraded Product category honors already-released products that have made significant enhancements and evolved with the changing technology to continue to offer the highest quality experiences for educators and students. Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence program has been recognizing outstanding ed tech curriculum products for 30 years. It recognizes both the "best of the best" and creative new offerings that help educators in the business of teaching, training and managing with technology.

Edmentum, Inc. is a leading provider of online learning solutions designed to drive learner achievement for academic and career success. With more than 50 years of experience driving significant advances in the industry, Edmentum offers a wide variety of innovative solutions spanning a multitude of program areas to empower 21st century teaching and learning. For more information, visit www.edmentum.com.

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