CTB/McGraw-Hill Announces Enhancements to Online Assessment and Student Achievement Reporting Systems

CTB/McGraw-Hill, the nation's leading provider of assessment solutions, today announced a new strategic alliance with TurnLeaf Solutions Inc. to enhance CTB's i-know™ family of online assessment products and student achievement reporting systems. The alliance with TurnLeaf enables CTB to offer three new additional reporting systems to meet the needs of states, districts, schools, and individual classrooms as required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

"CTB/McGraw-Hill offers a comprehensive Web-based student achievement reporting solution that can analyze, report, and link instruction to student assessment data," said David Taggart, president of CTB/McGraw-Hill. "The TurnLeaf-powered modules make the proven i-know system more robust and give educators additional options for reporting at the state, district, school or classroom level."

i-know Progress builds on CTB's i-know system, a secure web-based classroom-level assessment system that provides an easy to use, fast and cost-effective way to measure and analyze student performance. i-know Progress enables educators to meet state, district and classroom longitudinal tracking needs with student and summary reports. With i-know Progress, data can be aggregated and disaggregated to meet federal reporting provisions set by the adequate yearly progress requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

"The TurnLeaf/CTB alliance launches the shared vision of supporting data driven instruction and accountability reporting requirements," said Dr. Paul Johnson, senior vice president of education services, TurnLeaf. "TurnLeaf integrates the value of district level student/teacher data and CTB's renowned assessments to create a learning management solution for the U.S. K-12 market."

The enhanced i-know Progress system now includes new TurnLeaf-powered modules that provide easy-to-use online, custom solutions for reporting adequate yearly progress on all student groups at each educational level -- state, district, school, and classroom:

   -- The i-know Progress™ Classroom Reporter provides classroom teachers
      and school administrators with relevant views of class performance
      data to inform classroom instruction. Each report view within
      Classroom Reporter also provides a link to instructional resources
      that further help to support classroom instruction.

   -- The i-know Progress™ School Reporter provides a simple, in-depth,
      easy to access view of grade and classroom performance based on group
      demographic data. Teachers and administrators can compare any defined
      student group's performance within a school or district.

   -- The i-know Progress™ Summary Reporter provides summary achievement
      data that compares schools and offers a complete view of student
      achievement within a state.

  About CTB/McGraw-Hill

As the nation's leading publisher of standardized achievement tests for pre-school, elementary, middle and high schools, CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC offers a broad range of assessments, software and services. CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies, a global information services provider serving the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as McGraw-Hill Education, Standard and Poor's and Business Week. Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. has more than 320 offices in 34 countries. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com and http://www.ctb.com/.

About TurnLeaf Solutions, Inc.

TurnLeaf Solutions Inc. is an innovative software development company based in Littleton, CO. TurnLeaf researches, designs and develops utility-centric software that provides flexible data analysis options for high level research or classroom needs. TurnLeaf software is designed to provide data driven instruction and achievement management capabilities suitable for virtually any demographic, programmatic and test data environment. For additional information please visit: www.turnleaf.com.

SOURCE: CTB/McGraw-Hill

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Public and Governmental Affairs
McGraw-Hill Education
(831) 393-7816
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Andrea Kingman
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Online Products Manager
(831) 393-6353

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