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Curriculum Advantage Offers Free K-12 Instructional Technology As Part of Larger Hurricane Relief Efforts

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 15:00 CST

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. announced today that it will join vSKOOL to offer relief to K-12 students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and those schools and communities devastated by the disasters. Recognizing that instructional technology can provide valuable resources to areas devastated by the hurricanes, and to educators striving to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of displaced students, Curriculum Advantage's award winning INET Classroom is being donated to all students and educators affected, through vSKOOL's initiative to offer relief.

"Curriculum Advantage is pleased to assist in the efforts to serve these students," said Cathy Sump of Curriculum Advantage. "By offering instructional materials and resources that can be provided immediately, schools don't have to wait for relief funds or let other priorities prevent access to the educational tools they need."

INET Classroom is a comprehensive online research and resource solution providing effective use of technology in the classroom that is academically appropriate, relevant, and easy to use. It contains more than 170,000 Internet resources -- continually reviewed and categorized for use in Standards-based instruction, including educational and content-based websites, images, webquests, full-text books, and online periodicals.

"We believe that technology and online learning resources have a critical role to play in restarting educational programs and helping restore a sense of normalcy in schools affected by this past year's hurricanes. We're proud to see educational technology play such a critical role in the recovery process," said Douglas Levin, Director of Education Policy, Cable in the Classroom, and Co-Founder of the vSKOOL consortium, a broad-based consortium providing education-related aid to K-12 hurricane victims.

INET makes the integration of technology into the classroom seamless while saving time and providing instant access to appropriate and meaningful information and is currently used by more than 2,000,000 students and teachers nationwide.

About Curriculum Advantage

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) is based in Atlanta, Georgia. Curriculum Advantage's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that currently comprise over 4,300 hours of curriculum. Classworks activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and state tests. They include prescriptive and summative assessment, remediation and reporting tools. Classworks is installed in 2,000 schools in the United States and worldwide. INET Classroom, also from Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based curriculum linked to state and national standards.

About vSKOOL

vSKOOL (www.vSKOOL.org) was established to serve as a web-based clearinghouse of hurricane related offerings of educational technology products and services to affected K-12 students, teachers and families. Other initiative organizers include the Software & Information Industry Association, the Consortium for School Networking, the International Society for Technology in Education, the Education Industry Association, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, and Elliott Masie's Learning Consortium.

Source: Business Wire

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