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Press Releases  Pearson Education Technologies' Concert™ Instruction & Assessment Garners Highest Place in “Top 100 Products” Awards Independent Assessment and Endorsement Verifies Capabilities
to Combine Student, Parent, Teacher and Administrator Activities
into a Harmonized Online Process MESA, ARIZ. — June 27, 2003 – District Administration magazine's District’s Choice Top 100 Awards has ranked Concert Instruction & Assessment from Pearson Education Technologies as the top Internet education product for 2003. Concert Instruction & Assessment coordinates the efforts of K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents through standards-aligned instruction, lesson planning, assessment and educational content. To select the District’s Choice Top 100 Products for 2003, District Administration surveyed comments from a percentage of the magazine’s 75,000 readers. In addition, a core group of the magazine's staffers and editorial advisory board provided input on the thousands of new products they see each year. Now in its 16th year, the District's Choice Top 100 cite four product categories—Internet, software, hardware, and books and miscellaneous. "In that the selection process involved a broad cross-section of K-12 district leaders, the Top 100 Products award, and its number one ranking, show that Concert unquestionably holds the potential to maximize performance across the education enterprise," said Kelly Goodrich, Pearson Education Technologies' vice president of marketing. "This is a wonderful validation from educators that our vision for Concert is right on target." The Concert online education community is a single, fully integrated, modular suite of Web-based applications that brings together business processes, instruction, and assessment, with proven, research-based online courseware and extensive educational content. Concert Instruction & Assessment delivers comprehensive instructional resources, management services, and assessment tools, all integrated with a comprehensive set of standards that serve as a basis for aligned content, including lesson plans, test items, and other learning resources. Called the Pearson Core Standards, these are then grouped into state and district standards, providing a comprehensive, standards-based resource for managing mastery and maximizing achievement. The results will be revolutionary: more effective, seamless data
sharing, increased business process efficiency, greater accountability
and reporting accuracy, more effective data-driven decision making,
and maximum student achievement. About District Administration District
Administration magazine, which has a circulation
of 75,000, is the only education magazine to reach every superintendent
in the country, along with assistant superintendents, technology
directors, school board presidents, and federal funds administrators,
among others. The magazine covers current trends and pressing
issues in the K-12 education industry along with strong coverage
of emerging technologies and leadership issues for district-level
administrators. About Pearson Education Technologies With more than 40 years of experience in developing, delivering,
and supporting curriculum, assessment, and enterprise data management
products, Pearson Education Technologies is
the leader in offering comprehensive solutions for preK-12 education.
Reaching more than 10 million students annually, our products include
the SASIxp™ student information
system, SuccessMaker® Enterprise and NovaNET® comprehensive
courseware systems, and Concert™ Instruction
& Assessment,
the online education community. Pearson Education Technologies
is part of Pearson
Education (NYSE: PSO), the world's leading integrated education
company. Contact Matt Murphy, Corporate Communications Manager |
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