Additional information on Edusoft and its products can be obtained at
866-4-EDUSOFT or www.
Infinite Difference includes poems and creative nonfiction by Ekiwah Adler
Belendez, a young poet from Mexico with cerebral palsy, whose story was
featured on NBC Dateline.

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Curriculum Advantage and Edusoft Partnership Empowers Educators to Create Individual Learning Plans with Classworks

Students
are invited to read the work of their peers and post comments on the site --
http://www.org and explore the thought
provoking and enjoyable works of the young writers of Infinite Difference.

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Classworks is Curriculum Advantage's network-based
system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools,
and Edusoft is a leading standards-based assessment platform provider.curriculumadvantage. The
patent-pending Edusoft assessment platform helps with the creation of
paper exams, automates the grading process, provides deep analysis of
test scores, and finally helps educators adjust instruction based on
this analysis. Sixty hours of algebra and
pre-algebra resources have also been added to a new Algebra Series for
Classworks . By
reading and responding to the work of their peers, students make personal
connections to writing . Today as a
leader in arts-based teaching and learning, VSA arts' programs support key
national education goals: literacy and school readiness, teacher training, and
parental involvement.

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com ) includes 8,600 learning
activities from dozens of favorite educational software programs, all
of which are correlated with National Education Standards in math and
language arts.

About VSA arts
VSA arts is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by
Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with
disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts.

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They include prescriptive and summative assessment,
remediation and reporting tools. INET Classroom, also from
Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based
curriculum linked to state and national standards.
As teaching aids, the stories and poems in Infinite Difference give
educators a tangible tool to engage students in the writing process.

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When I read a poem, on an
ephemeral level I go to the places the poet describes," said Ekiwah.

Contains sites which are concerned with the short story literary form, including articles and essays on the short story form as well as story texts by classic and contemporary writers.

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The call for flash fiction and poetry asked students to "explore the
beauty in variety, perceived imperfections, and the infinite complexities of
'difference.

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Based on the vision of the No Child Left
Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Edusoft gives educators tools to make
data-driven decisions about students and classrooms.

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Edusoft's web-based assessment platform allows teachers to manage,
organize and analyze student data to help them reach their goals and
improve student performance.com) has
offices in Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; and Wayne, Neb.

VSA arts Launches Interactive Online Literary Journal Infinite Difference

"We hope Ekiwah's work and personal story provide a backdrop for the
important literary contributions of young people around the world," said Soula
Antoniou, president of VSA arts.
"I cannot walk by myself, yet in my poem I not only walk, but give myself
license to have eight legs and experience movement.

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The partnership will enable educators to maximize a student's
opportunity to score well on their next high stakes test by using
Classworks' internal benchmark tests to further assess each student's
proficiency in mathematics and reading.

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(www. Infinite Difference also offers educators an
interactive tool to tackle national writing standards and promote literacy in
the classroom .

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About Edusoft

Edusoft offers the only proven standards-based assessment platform
to enable public schools immediate access to online student
performance results and customized instructional tools based on the
automatic scoring of plain paper answer sheets.

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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 3,000 hours of curriculum.com

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"We're excited about our partnership with Edusoft as it further
enhances the relevance of our Classworks curriculum," said Lindsey
Cook, president of Curriculum Advantage.
VSA arts is proud to provide a forum for these talented voices.

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"Not only are we able to give
teachers advanced control over information , but we are providing them
with more ways to utilize that information to improve student
performance . "The seamless interaction
between our best-of-breed products empower educators to make a
significant difference in the classroom by successfully connecting
performance data directly to individualized instruction.
Classworks is a recognized reading resource worthy of purchase
using Title II, Part D funds as allocated by NCLB.

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"The combination of Classworks' teaching activities with Edusoft's
assessment capabilities is a key component toward making formative
assessment a powerful tool for improving student learning," said Iwan
Streichenberger, president of Edusoft.org .

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Classworks
activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and
state tests .
A network of VSA arts' affiliates nationwide and in more than 60 countries
serve more than five million people through programs focused on engaging
students in the arts by helping teachers create more inclusive learning
experiences; empowering artists with disabilities by encouraging their career
paths; and supporting arts access to community cultural facilities and
activities for people with disabilities.

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WASHINGTON, VSA arts today launched an interactive
online literary journal showcasing creative writing by students ages 11-18,
with a connection to disability.vsarts.

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Advantage, Inc."
Classworks (www.curriculumadvantage . Classworks is installed in 2,000
schools in the United States and worldwide.edusoft.

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Classworks is also
aligned with the five key components of reading instruction: phonemic
awareness, phonics , fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, as defined
by the National Institute for Literacy and the Partnership for
Reading.

About Curriculum Advantage

Curriculum Advantage, Inc.'" A panel of professional writers and teachers judged the
submissions and selected a group of ten stories and poems that best exemplify
the creative voices that emerge from experiences with disability.

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announced today a partnership with Edusoft(R) that
offers educators a powerful tool to track student performance on
district and state assessment tests and leverage that information to
create individual Classworks learning plans tailored to a student's
particular needs. Classworks State Editions are further aligned to the
learning standards of 15 states so that teachers can more closely tie
their teaching to the core concepts and competencies prescribed by
their state. New content for English as a second language (ESL) and
English Language Learners (ELL) is being added to help students who
are new to the English language. The online journal -- Infinite Difference --
presents selected pieces from a call for flash fiction and poetry.

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Edusoft, a division of
Houghton Mifflin Assessment Group, is headquartered in San Francisco.

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