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		<title>Improving Title 1 Student Academic Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 05:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comprehensive At-Risk Student Solutions The American Education Corporation offers products and solutions that differentiate instruction and serve at-risk students. Our A+ products integrate into alternative learning environments, including credit recovery, dropout prevention, and response to intervention programs to help narrow the achievement gap between your highest and lowest performing students and groups &#8211; empowering you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.backbonecommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/title-1-student-academic-achievement-k-12-curriculum-assessment-solutions.pdf" title="A+ Curriculum &amp; Assessment Solutions"><img src="http://www.backbonecommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/acurriculum-assessment-solutions.png" alt="A+ Curriculum &amp; Assessment Solutions" height="119" width="498" /></a></p>
<h2>Comprehensive At-Risk Student Solutions</h2>
<p>The American Education Corporation offers products and solutions that differentiate instruction and serve at-risk students. Our <em>A</em>+ products integrate into alternative learning environments, including credit recovery, dropout prevention, and response to intervention programs to help narrow the achievement gap between your highest and lowest performing students and groups &#8211; empowering you to serve all students. We offer one of the broadest and deepest scientifically research-based systems on the market today that allows you to deliver standards-based assessment, personalized instruction, accountability, extensive individualized or group reporting, and customized professional development. Our complete assessment and curriculum solution can help you raise success levels for your Title I students.</p>
<h2>Individualized K-12 Curriculum Software Assessment &amp; Instruction</h2>
<p>Our solutions include online universal screening and monitoring capabilities that result in a customized learning path for each student through a proven assessment, prescription (differentiating instruction), instruction, and reporting framework. Student strengths and weaknesses are identified through initial assessments, then a personalized curriculum prescription is delivered to the student. Content is presented through a direct instruction approach to mastery that uses study guides, practice exercises, mastery tests, and essays to deliver a comprehensive learning program to each student. Our flexible, self-paced, and non-threatening computer-based lesson content features engaging, age-appropriate graphics that include positive reinforcement elements that motivate students who have a history of academic failure. The delivered content creates a one-on-one, nurturing learning environment that promotes positive learning outcomes.</p>
<h2>Focus on Standards</h2>
<p>Our integrated management system aligns the content to your state standards, allowing you to focus student learning time on the content they must master to excel on state achievement tests. Every lesson is correlated to your state and local standards, so students are better equipped to reach proficiency goals.</p>
<h2>Multiple Assessment Solutions</h2>
<p>We offer a wide range of scientifically-validated assessments to support all the needs of a comprehensive Title I solution. These include teacher-generated, building, and district-wide assessments and include summative and formative assessments, which are both scaled and predictive. They provide placement, define individual instructional paths, monitor progress, and measure achievement against both state standards and universal developmental scales, such as the Lexile Framework<sup>®</sup> for Reading and the Quantile Framework<sup>®</sup> for Math.</p>
<h2>Extensive K-12 Content for Alternative Learning Environments</h2>
<p><em>A</em>+ products have been successfully used in extended learning programs (before- and after-school, weekend, and summer), that will help Title I students remain in regular student instruction. Extended learning programs often provide a positive student alternative to spending time on the streets or being home alone &#8211; greatly reducing at-risk behavior. Our products are successfully used in a wide variety of alternative learning environments (high school credit recovery, dropout prevention, college readiness, GED<sup>®</sup> preparation, and general curriculum reinforcement) across the country that need to provide supplemental education services to their students and truly differentiated instruction.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.backbonecommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/title-1-student-academic-achievement-k-12-curriculum-assessment-solutions.pdf" title="Title 1 Student Academic Achievement - K-12 Curriculum &amp; Assessment Solutions">Improving Title 1 Student Academic Achievement &#8211; K-12 Curriculum &amp; Assessment Solutions</a></p>
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		<title>LIVE WEBINAR: Universal Screening Webinar: TUESDAY, March 24th</title>
		<link>http://www.backbonecommunications.com/news/universal-screening-webinar-tuesday-march-24th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boosting student achievement means identifying those students at risk for learning difficulties in reading and math, behavioral issues or on the brink of dropping out. THE Journal WEBINAR Series PRESENTS: Universal Screening Webinar: Register for the Universal Screening Webinar and LEARN HOW TO: Place students in the right reading and math level across grades Accurately [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=132946&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=0E07C12663637B0BB8E8106C0E8A4B57&amp;partnerref=sponsor&amp;sourcepage=register" target="_blank" title="THE Journal Webinar Series: Universal Screening - Tuesday, March 24"><img src="http://www.backbonecommunications.com/wp-content/uploads/the-journal-webinar-series-universal-screening.png" alt="THE Journal Webinar Series: Universal Screening - Tuesday, March 24" height="390" width="460" /></a></p>
<p>Boosting student achievement means identifying those students at risk for learning difficulties in reading and math, behavioral issues or on the brink of dropping out.</p>
<p><a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=132946&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=0E07C12663637B0BB8E8106C0E8A4B57&amp;partnerref=sponsor&amp;sourcepage=register" title="THE Journal Webinar Series: Universal Screening - Tuesday, March 24" target="_blank">THE Journal WEBINAR Series PRESENTS: Universal Screening Webinar: </a></p>
<p>Register for the Universal Screening Webinar and <strong>LEARN HOW TO</strong>:</p>
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<li><strong>Place</strong> students in the right reading and math level across grades</li>
<li>Accurately <strong><em>predict</em></strong> how a student will perform on high-stakes tests</li>
<li><strong>Prescribe</strong> appropriate instructional material</li>
<li>Track <strong><em>progress</em></strong> and pinpoint those needing additional support</li>
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<p><a href="https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&amp;eventid=132946&amp;sessionid=1&amp;key=0E07C12663637B0BB8E8106C0E8A4B57&amp;partnerref=sponsor&amp;sourcepage=register" title="THE Journal Webinar Series: Universal Screening - Tuesday, March 24" target="_blank">THE Journal WEBINAR Series PRESENTS: Universal Screening Webinar: </a></p>
<h3>TUESDAY, MARCH 24th @ 11am MST / PDT (2pm EST)</h3>
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