With schools moving to implement more rigorous standards, some changes are occurring in reading instruction and the resources used for that instruction, although much remains the same.
May 17, 2017By Robert M. Resnick, Ph.D., Education Market Research According to the results of a fall 2013 survey of the elementary Reading market segment, conducted by Education Market Research (EMR), a clear majority of the educators sampled (73.3%) still have a core/basal Reading series which they either “follow very closely” (28.8%) or, more often, from which they “pick and choose parts of it to use as needed” (44.5%). Only 26.7% indicated they do not use a core Reading series. [Thus the number not us...
February 12, 2014By: Michael Norris The latest versions of the iPad are shipping today: the iPad Air and the iPad Mini. Both are improved, and with the price of the tablets still the same as last year (save for a $30 price reduction for the first generation of the iPad Mini) there are probably a lot of people thinking about giving one as a gift this year-or buying one for themselves and handing their ‘outdated’ tablet to their children. They’ve seen the cute commercials, just like I have. This is the generat...
November 1, 2013Simba Information, a media and market research firm behind The Rise and Impact of Self Publishing 2013-2014 , The iPad and Its Owner and other intelligence tools, has released the eighth edition of Children’s Publishing Market Forecast, which has increased its coverage of activity in the children’s/YA book market to educational apps to be used by children. Since the core of Children’s Publishing Market Forecast 2014 is based on a series of nationally representative surveys of 2,000 adults, thi...
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