Research has clearly shown that good formative assessment practices lead to more effective instruction and increased student achievement. This partnership takes that process one step further, leading teachers to the precise lessons in this excellent core program that address each student's specific needs.

There's a lot of research to suggest that achievement is tied to one's own socioeconomic status. On average a low-income child is not going to do as well on average as a middle-class child. If I am a middle-class child doing well and I'm attending a high-poverty school, I'm going to do less well on average.

This partnership makes competitive intelligence, market research and business development teams more effective because what was previously an unmanageable database of information can now be automatically distributed, commented on, searched and managed from a central location, by the people that use it. Critical information is no longer lost or distributed by chance, but is brought directly to the users that need it.

The achievement reported in PNAS is the culmination of a research effort lasting a quarter of a century and involving hundreds of students and millions of dollars.

That's driven by the recognition that research says that the most important factor in students' achievement is the effectiveness of the teacher.

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