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Apangea Learning Expands Customer Base

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 August 2005, 09:00 CDT

Apangea Learning, Inc., a leading provider of hybrid tutoring solutions, today announced that it has expanded its customer base, gaining further traction in the market for supplemental education services. In recent weeks, the company has signed more than a dozen new agreements and renewed over six. More than 30 schools are currently using Apangea's SmartHelp offering to help students improve their performance in math.

"All schools want to help their students succeed," said Apangea CEO Louis Piconi. "But most lack sufficient resources to reach every child that needs help. That's where our solutions come into play. With Apangea SmartHelp, schools can effectively scale their tutoring resources to reach students anywhere, at any time and provide them with the support they need to achieve their maximum potential. And best of all, they can do it for less than $2 per hour."

A revolutionary hybrid tutoring solution that combines intelligent software with human tutors, Apangea SmartHelp provides a fully supportive environment in which students learn a consistent, structured approach to solving math problems. Built on a research-based approach to problem solving, SmartHelp is uniquely designed to help struggling students learn how to solve math problems, not just how to arrive at the right answer. Intelligent software monitors student progress and analyzes when it is appropriate to step in and provide additional support, allowing students to learn at their own pace and in their own style. When system-generated feedback isn't enough, human tutors are flagged to provide more individualized assistance.

"Sometimes in education, we have a tendency to make things much more difficult than they need to be," said Dennis Johnson, Superintendent, Cornell Area School District where Apangea SmartHelp is in use. "Apangea SmartHelp is a really common sense approach to tutoring that has helped us do what we need to do to get our kids where they need to be."

When Johnson began using SmartHelp as part of extended day tutoring programs, 25 percent of his students were performing below proficient levels. Within six months of implementing the solution, the District met performance standards on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessments exam for the first time in more than four years, with approximately 32 percent of 8th grade students tested during the spring of 2004 scoring at or above proficient levels, up from 28 percent in 2003.

More than 30 other schools are using Apangea SmartHelp in hopes of achieving similar results. For more information on the solution and the benefits it can deliver, please visit www.apangealearning.com or call (724) 357-8664.

About Apangea Learning

Apangea Learning, Inc. is a leading provider of hybrid tutoring solutions that combine intelligent software with live support from human tutors to help students improve their performance in math. Our hosted solutions create a fully supportive environment in which students can learn a consistent, structured approach to solving math problems. Through our offerings, schools can enhance the quality of the tutoring programs they administer while dramatically reducing the cost of delivering them. For more information on Apangea Learning and its solutions, please visit www.apangealearning.com

Source: Business Wire

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