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Technology Helps Teach Complex Reading Skills - read the article in eSchool News Today about using technology for teaching reading in the upper grades.  more>>>

eSchool News Readers Chooses Autoskill's Academy of Reading for Second Consecutive Time

Ed Tech has Proven Effective  - read the article in eSchool News Today about how Technology is helping education.  more

AutoSkill Releases 2 Case Studies in Ohio
Academy of Reading - See how students at Shiloview Elementary rasied their scores   more

Academy of Math - See how students at Freedom Elementary raised their score using Academy of Math.  more

Vantage Learning's MY Access!® Chosen as CODiE Award Winner for 2nd Year in a Row
May 17, 2006- MY Access! is selected as "Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English-Secondary" at the 2006 Annual CODiE Awards          more>>>

Ohio School raises 4th grade reading scores by 120% while using Destination Success         more>>>

Academy of READING: CODiE Award Finalist!

The Academy of READING is a Finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 21st Annual CODiE Awards. It has been selected from many high-caliber products as one of the best in the software and information industry. The next round of voting in the CODiE Awards includes the Finalist Review Program, in which SIIA members cast their votes to help determine the CODiE Awards Winners. This will take place in April and the winners will be announced at an Awards Gala in May.

Oakland Middle School Students Rise to Writing Challenge with Vantage's MY Access! Learning Tool
Edna Brewer Middle School transforms student writing skills with Vantage Learning's online writing tool

Oakland, Calif., November 21, 2005 - Students at Edna Brewer Middle School have vastly improved their writing skills and have the scores to prove it.  more>>>


Riverdeep Wins 2005 Award of Excellence
Destination Success® recognized as an outstanding educational product by Technology & Learning magazine

Technology & Learning has named Riverdeep’s Destination Success® courseware as an Award of Excellence winner in the magazine’s prestigious 23-year-old recognition program.   more>>>


California Adopts Riverdeep's Destination Reading(R) for
Reading First Intervention; Critically Acclaimed Courseware
Positively Reviewed for Teaching Federally Mandated
Reading Skills

Source: Riverdeep, August 11, 2005
Riverdeep's critically acclaimed Destination Reading(R) courseware has been positively reviewed as a Reading First Supplemental Intervention Program Material by the California Department of Education.  more>>>


Students get help with homework from technology
Destination Math Featured in USA TODAY

Source: USA TODAY.com, August 02, 2005

Students get help with homework from technology -- "For instance, high-school students stressed over math may want to consider Riverdeep's "Destination Math: Mastering Algebra..." more>>


Sparking a Revolution in Teaching and Learning
By Carole Eaton

How one of Ohio's lowest –performing elementary schools raised its third –grade reading test scores by a whopping 124 percent.   more>>>


eSchool News Chooses Autoskill's Academy of Reading for their Reader's Choice Award

In September, eSchool News held its first –ever Reader’s Choice Awardsprogram devoted to school reading software. Believed to be one of the only programs of its kind, the poll asked you—the reader—to pick the best software products for improving students’ reading instruction in five critical areas: phonics and phonemic awareness, vocabulary, reading comprehension, fluency, and English as a Second Language (ESL).    more>>>