AEDU News The American Education Corporation Announces Assessment Resources to Help Schools Impacted by Hurricane Katrina: "AEDU News The American Education Corporation Announces Assessment Resources to Help Schools Impacted by Hurricane Katrina
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Penny stocksDate: September 6, 2005 08:54:00 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005--The American Education Corporation (AEC) (OTCBB:
AEDU Message Board) announced today that the Company would offer, free of charge, access to online assessments for all students in grade levels 1-12 who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. As displaced students arrive at new schools without records, educators will be faced with the dilemma of placing these students in the appropriate course of study consistent with each student's skill level. These no cost assessments will be available at www.aplusanywhere.com. Part of AEC's A+nyWhere Learning System(R) (A+LS), the formative assessment tests measure skill knowledge in the critical curriculum areas of mathematics, reading and other core instructional subject areas. The data from these assessments can provide educators with an understanding of the needs of individual students needed to effectively develop and manage instruction. In addition, AEC will maintain records that can be used by educators in other school districts to which students might move in the future, including the students' original home districts.
In the states directly impacted by Katrina (LA, MS, AL), AEC has an installed base of approximately 550 K-12 schools. In the immediately surrounding states, the Company has an installed base of approximately 1,600 schools. The schools that are current users of A+LS already have the tools to administer thes"
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