| Title:
| 400,000 Essays Later, Vantage Learning Spells Success in Over Half of Utah's School Districts
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| Description:
| Utah's students are boosting critical writing, reasoning, and computer skills in the classroom, thanks to a licensing agreement for MY Access! the award-winning online writing tool developed by Vantage Learning. Twenty four districts have decided to use MY Access! this school year after teachers, directors and administrators from across the state saw a marked improvement in student performance. Students submitted over 400,000 essays to MY Access! in one school year and administrators decided to expand their use of MY Access! to over 70,000 licenses in over twenty four school districts throughout the Utah school system. ... To use MY Access!, students write an essay based on a teacher's assignment, and submit it to the Web-based system. The program instantly analyzes over 350 semantic, syntactic, and discourse characteristics, and scores the students on focus and meaning, organization, content and development, language use and style, mechanics and conventions, and overall writing proficiency.
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| Author:
| Vantage Learning
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| Orig. Date:
| August 18, 2008
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| Source:
| Business Wire / MarketWatch
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| Subject:
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| Contributor:
| Bruce Buchanan
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| Comments:
| company press release, but relevant
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| Type:
| Text
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| Language:
| English
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| Format:
| html
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| Last Edit:
| Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:01:44 -0700
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