Standardized Assessment Tests Coming Soon

Spring is upon us, and soon school-age children across the country will begin taking a series of standardized assessment tests.
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High-Stakes Exit Exam Intervention

Today, all states are concerned about their students' college readiness and question if they are equipped with the career and technical skills necessary to compete in today's economy. See how states have taken different approaches in developing exit exam standards.
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A++ Florida Prepares Middle and High School Students for the Challenges Ahead

The State of Florida has raised the bar, breaking new educational ground with recent A++ Legislation that create new milestones for secondary school reform. To keep up with the demands states such as Florida are making on their educational systems, PLATO Learning has raised the bar too, with the development of rigorous, relevant middle and high school courses that feature innovative teaching and learning techniques.
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Formative Assessment for Understanding

In this era of mandated accountability, summative year-end assessments are not enough to ensure that students learn and schools make adequate yearly progress. Learn more about formative assessment mandates, as well as easy and effective solutions to measure and assess student progress throughout the school year.
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Irvine USD Implements PLATO® eduTest Assessments to Inform Instruction

Teachers within the Irvine Unified School District use PLATO eduTest Assessment to identify students' strengths and weaknesses in grade 4-6 reading, writing, math and science. See how Irvine USD used benchmark assessments to better instruct and prepare students for end-of-grade tests, and aligned to California content standards and approved California instructional materials.
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Tougher Standards Urged for Federal Education Law

It was recently recommended by a private bipartisan commission that the No Child Left Behind, the federal education law, should be toughened to judge teachers and principals by their students' test scores, and to block chronically ineffective educators from working in high-poverty schools.
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Look What I Learned!

A new report finds surprising parallels between learning techniques and killing aliens. An FAS study released this week, titled "Harnessing the power of video games for learning," reports that best-selling games are built in surprisingly pedagogical ways. Players improve at their own pace.
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Exploration & the Founding Fathers
America's 400th anniversary is upon us, and you and your students can participate in the celebration. Jamestown 2007 honors the establishment of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Va., and across the nation, and particularly within Virginia. To help you discuss this historical milestone we have provided multiple lessons from community problem solving, social relationships and conflict, treaties, mercantilism, to freedom and self-government in this month's Nettie's Corner.

Grades K–2

The Founding of New Societies
Students discover the many varied reasons why colonists came to America.
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National Science Education     See How Taking Turns Helps         Understand "real world" situations in pictorial forms.         Understand social relationships and community problem         solving through working together.

PLATO® Projects for the Real World, Level B — Working Together

Grades 3–5

Interdependence: A Colonial Example
Students identify with their colonial craftsmen and recognize that each trade in a town is economically dependent on the others.
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National Assessment of Educational Progress 3-5     The English Establish Thirteen Colonies in America (1607-1732):         Understand thirteen colonies charters, valuable goods         and mercantilism.         Understand the fundamentals of self government.

Worldview® Basic American History I: Pre-Columbian Years to Reconstruction

Grades 6–8

Secrets of Jamestown
Students learn what the explorers who set sail from London to the distant shores of America in December 1606, could not have anticipated-drought, hunger, illness, and more.
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National Assessment of Educational Progress 6-8     Colonial Life Brings Social Change to America (1607-1750)         Understand colonial life, freedom, economic opportunity,         royal charters.         Understand how New England colonies dealt with conflict,         treaties and disease.

Worldview® Basic American History I: Pre-Columbian Years to Reconstruction (PWLN)

Grades 9–12

Experiment With Colonization
American History students to gain practical experience in the basic types of challenges that may exist in the establishment of an early colony.
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National Assessment of Educational Progress     Europeans Explore the New World (1492-1763)         Understand exploration to the New World, Indian Wars,         Treaties and American Colonies.

Worldview® American History I: Period of Exploration to Reconstruction (PWLN)

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