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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BtoB revenue performance agency Bulldog Solutions brought home three awards in the 6th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Bulldog's VP of Strategic Accounts Heather Hoetger won a Silver Stevie in the "Sales Representative of the Year" category for her contributions to the company's consistent growth. Two Bulldog Solutions clients -- CompassLearning and NetIQ -- were awarded with Bronze Stevies in the "Demand Generation...

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to growing demand from public school systems nationwide for more efficient instructional solutions that help teachers be more effective with each child, CompassLearning, the leading provider of personalized learning solutions for K-12 schools, announced today that Arthur VanderVeen, the former chief of innovation for the New York City Department of Education, has joined the company as vice president of business strategy and...

AUSTIN, Texas, June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- CompassLearning, the leading provider of K-12 education software, has added Odyssey Community® and four new high school electives to its Odyssey® software suite. Odyssey Community is a social media tool that facilitates online conversations to improve student-teacher interactions within a safe, secure environment. Teachers and students will be able to access Odyssey Community through the CompassLearning Odyssey log-in. They can interact with...

SAN ANTONIO, March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Six out of ten (65 percent) teachers and school administrators from across the country attending the ASCD Critical Transformation Show & Conference believe the printed textbook will soon be completely replaced by interactive and e-learning tools, according to a survey sponsored by CompassLearning during the three-day conference ending today, March 8th. The survey echoes findings from a recent report by the Gates Foundation and Scholastic in which...

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- CompassLearning, the award-winning 40-year-old educational software company, was acquired from Reader's Digest Association by Marlin Equity Partners on January 26, 2010. Freed from the constraints imposed by operating as a subsidiary of a large corporate parent, CompassLearning gains the ability to respond more quickly to customer needs, enhance its product line, make strategic acquisitions, and take advantage of the expanding opportunities in the...

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- CompassLearning today announced that the Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gave Odyssey Math, a K-12 online learning solution, their "highest possible rating" based on the results of a study that focused on fifth-grade mathematics students. The study found that students who used Odyssey Math in addition to regular coursework scored an average of 103 points -- or 17 percent -- higher on the mathematics portion of Pennsylvania's...

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been estimated that nearly 1.23 million students from the class of 2008 will fail to graduate high school. In an effort to improve graduation rates, CompassLearning, the leading provider of personalized education technology solutions, announced today the release of Odyssey High School, a new technology-based intervention solution. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080804/NYM110 ) Odyssey for grades K-8 has been a popular and...