Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Online Learning System Key to Student Success

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, the leading provider of secondary learning materials, today released its online version of PassKey: A Prescriptive Learning System for Grades 6-8. PassKey is an award-winning computer-based program that provides test preparation and basic skills instruction.

This self-paced online system helps students gain proficiency in mathematics, reading, writing, science, and social studies by selecting from hundreds of computer-based lessons available for various reading levels.

"With more than 20 years of proven success in the classroom, we are excited about offering this new online version of Passkey," said Steve McClung, president of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill. "PassKey online increases the value to students and teachers by providing immediate access to tools that can improve student performance."

PassKey's prescriptive approach includes skill-specific lessons with feedback that lets instructors and students identify the exact skill needing improvement. The lesson structure includes a pretest, tutorial, guided practice, and a post test. PassKey lessons range from beginning to college-entry skill levels.

PassKey provides built-in correlations for more than 50 state and national proficiency tests including the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE), the most widely used norm-referenced test of adult basic education. Instructors can identify the exact standardized test used by their school and choose corresponding PassKey lessons which can be assigned to individual students or groups. Instructors also have the flexibility of creating custom correlations that provide a group of standard lessons for a specific class or group of students.

PassKey is offered in a modular format that enables educators to purchase specific levels or subjects needed for a targeted learning program. For additional information including testimonials on proven results with the PassKey system, please visit: http://www.passkeylearning.com/.

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill is a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, a leading global provider of electronic and print products that enhance teaching and learning in the pre-K through 12th grade, higher education and professional markets. McGraw-Hill Education is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, Business Week and McGraw-Hill Education. The Corporation has more than 320 offices in 34 countries. Sales in 2002 were $4.8 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.

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