This week, Simon&Schuster made a huge portion of its backlist titles available to ebook subscription platforms Oyster and Scribd, and today HarperCollins followed suit with about 1,000 children's titles for ebook subscription platform Epic! The site, which aims for the ages five through twelve readership. Unlike typical library lending through companies like OverDrive … [Read more...] about More Backlist Titles Make Their Way to Subscription eBook Services
Common Core
Scholastic Unveils Storia School Edition
As global leaders in both children's content development and educational innovation, Scholastic is a company whose name is synonymous with quality platforms for schools. From their monthly reader book clubs to their entire curriculum manifests, the wealth of solutions they provide to educational institutions is pretty astounding. This week, Scholastic announced the launch of … [Read more...] about Scholastic Unveils Storia School Edition
McGraw-Hill Education Launches Update to Digital SRA Number Worlds
If you attended public school in the US, you probably have memories of working your way through the colored rainbow of those SRA reading labs and math labs, big boxes of work-at-your-own-pace laminated tabbed sheets of leveled exercises. And sure, thirty years ago, that was as innovative as the typical classroom got by acknowledging that not every student will learn at the same … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Education Launches Update to Digital SRA Number Worlds
Want Your Kids to Read More? Leave Them Alone.
In-depth details on what motivates reading in children have come out in a new book, published by the world's leading publisher of children's content, Scholastic. In Reading Unbound: Why Kids Need to Read What They Want – and Why We Should Let Them, authors Jeffrey D. Wilhelm (Boise State University) and Michael W. Smith (Temple University), explain that there has to be more to … [Read more...] about Want Your Kids to Read More? Leave Them Alone.
McGraw-Hill Education Offers New Platform Aimed at Struggling Readers Faced with CCSS
Anyone who follows education news in the US is aware of the strict requirements and goals of the Common Core standards for public education. What many are criticizing as a national curriculum--as thought it was wrong to determine that every US high school graduate would meet the same standards for education--actually serves to ensure that every student whose education had been … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Education Offers New Platform Aimed at Struggling Readers Faced with CCSS
Back to School: Digital Comics for the Common Core
As students head back for the start of school, teachers and administrators have something new on their minds: The Common Core, a set of educational standards that are being rolled out in 45 states. There's a lot of debate around the Common Core, but nonetheless, it's the educational trend du jour and will be with us for a while. Savvy teachers have been using comics and … [Read more...] about Back to School: Digital Comics for the Common Core
Scholastic Book Clubs Get Redesign in Time for Back-to-School
Anyone who has been a public school student in the past 60+ years is probably familiar with the monthly Scholastic book clubs. Some of the best moments in book discovery happened when the teacher passed out those crinckly colorful pages to browse. Now, though, Scholastic is making some major upgrades to the beloved school book clubs, just in time for back-to-school. Some of … [Read more...] about Scholastic Book Clubs Get Redesign in Time for Back-to-School
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks
While digital textbooks abound throughout the country at the college level and new companies spring up almost monthly to provide digital-editions for the thousands of titles in use in US higher education, one of the markets that has been slow to adopt digital textbooks--at great expense to already cash-strapped school systems--is the K through 12 public school arena. Due to … [Read more...] about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks
Storia Adds Titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Scholastic, Inc.'s interactive e-reading application Storia has been a godsend for teachers and learners across the country. By maintaining compatibility with nearly any device that a teacher could potentially use in the classroom--whether it is a mobile device or PC--educators are able to bring Scholastic high-quality, vetted content to their learning environments through the … [Read more...] about Storia Adds Titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ebrary Provides Content Aligned with Common Core Standards
One of the key flaws of the US educational system as identified among teachers and parents is the constant feeling of disjointedness when it comes to new curricula; add that to the fact that each state gets to determine its own curriculum, yet the test scores of the entire nation are compared to those of students in other countries. While not yet reaching the point of … [Read more...] about ebrary Provides Content Aligned with Common Core Standards