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Press Releases  NCS Pearson Combines Three Businesses to Form NCS Learn New Business Poised to Meet the ESEA Bill's Testing and Accountability Demands The new business, called NCS Learn, represents the combination of NCS Pearson's K-12 Enterprise Software Solutions group, the SchoolCONNECTxp™ application service provider, and the NCS Learn comprehensive courseware group. With each business bringing some of the most recognizable and successful brands in the education industry, the new NCS Learn is poised to meet the testing and accountability demands recently placed on schools by the recently enacted Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Reauthorization Bill. "We are especially pleased that this combination has come together to help schools meet the call for statewide testing and demonstrable progress toward academic proficiency," said Mike Morache, president of the new NCS Learn and former president of NCS Pearson's Educational Software and Services group. "Bringing all of our administrative and comprehensive courseware solutions together will make it easier for schools to take advantage of what we have to offer: sophisticated, easy-to-use tools that help increase student achievement and help educators meet accountability demands." Building upon NCS Pearson's market leading brands of SASIxp™, CIMS® G/T, SuccessMaker®, NovaNET® and Destinations™; the new NCS Learn will bring to market NCS4School™, a completely integrated education solution. The NCS4School solution suite is an Internet-based offering designed to incorporate the daily activities of K-12 teachers, parents, students and administrators into one cohesive, easy-to-use solution to meet critical learning and information needs. The NCS4School offering will combine—for the first time ever—administrative, instruction and curriculum, testing and assessment, and collaboration programs into one seamlessly integrated online solution to help maximize performance across the education enterprise. NCS Learn will continue to develop and invest in its many market-leading products, including the SuccessMaker, NovaNET and Destinations comprehensive courseware product lines as well as NCS Pearson's Enterprise Software Solutions product lines. These include the xp series™ integrated software suite—cross-platform software that works together to better manage the educational process—such as the SASIxp student administrative system, and the InteGrade® Pro web-based gradebook system. Also part of the new NCS Learn is the SchoolCONNECTxp™ application service provider (ASP) option, which delivers the full xp series software systems using thin-client technology. "The new NCS Learn is a powerful component of NCS Pearson with no competitive equal," said Morache. "Our products are used by more than 50,000 schools. NCS Learn offers some of the most recognized brands in the K-12 market, and as part of the Pearson Education family, some of the most successful educational brands in the world, including Prentice Hall and Scott Foresman." About NCS Learn NCS Learn is a leader in offering a total education solution-proven, comprehensive curriculum, assessment, and data management systems—via software or online delivery. NCS Learn is a business of NCS Pearson, a global provider of applications, services and technologies for education, testing, assessment, government and complex data management. NCS Pearson is a part of Pearson Education, the world's largest integrated education company. NCS Learn is based in Mesa, Ariz. Contact Matt Murphy, Corporate Communications Manager
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