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• September 11, 2011 Faith Lutheran School

    Faith Lutheran School 2727 S. Grove Street Eustis, FL 32726 Corinne Hoffert, Principal Phone 352-589-5683                    Fax 352-589-1328         After using MY Access! for more than five years, my students have settled into the routine. During the school year each class uses the program to complete one writing […]

• September 12, 2009 Middle School Gets $30,000 Grant

  – News-Journal Online DELTONA — Galaxy Middle School received a $30,480 grant this week that will be used for an online program to improve students’ writing skills. The grant comes from Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program as part of more than $650,000 in grants, endowments and subsidies to school districts throughout the country. The money […]

• September 10, 2009 Martin County Schools Get Grants For Computer-assisted Learning

  -R.J. Harrington, TCPalm STUART — Four Martin County schools have received nearly $100,000 in grants from the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program for computer-assisted learning in language arts. Anderson, Hidden Oaks and Stuart middle schools and South Fork High School will share $99,000 to update software and purchase additional components of the MY Access! system. […]

• September 3, 2009 Apopka High Earns Grant For Improving Students Writing

  -West Orlando News Representatives from Vantage Learning, a New Jersey-based educational software company, will present the $19,500 grant in a Language Arts classroom at the school. The grant will allow 750 students to be licensed to use a software program called MY Access! The program allows a student to write an essay, submit the essay […]

• March 1, 2008 Palm Springs USD Rolls Out Instructional Writing Program

  -Dave Nagel, T.H.E Journal Southern California’s Palm Springs Unified School District is rolling out an online writing program called MY Access! from Vantage Learning. The rollout will begin in elementary and middle schools in the first year and expand to high schools beginning in the second. The full deployment, expected within three years, will run […]

• July 5, 2007 Hi-Tech School Gives Students A Second Chance

  -The Escamba Sun-Press Students from Escambia County School District, Pensacola, Fla. were recently given the chance of a lifetime. Two years ago Dr. Ruth Forrester, a principal in the Escambia School District, set her mind to saving the children who were slowly falling through the cracks of the education system. Performing nearly two years below […]

• October 28, 2006 Program Offers Leg Up On FCAT

  -Carmen Paige, Pensacola News Journal, pnj.com Santa Rosa County students are using an Internet instructional tool aimed at helping boost writing scores on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. About 10,000 students, mainly in grades six through 10, are using the latest version of MY Access!, which allows them to write an essay, type it into […]

• May 20, 2006 Fort McCoy Writes Way To Better FCAT Scores: Teachers use special program to teach skills

  -MAYA CARPENTER, THE STAR-BANNER OCALA — Students at Fort McCoy School are writing their way to success when it comes to measuring their achievements under the state’s FCAT rankings. The school’s elementary-grade students ranked fourth in the state in terms of the percentage increase — 46 percent — in their FCAT writing scores from last […]

• May 18, 2005 Write On Time

  –Bay News 9 Cutting-edge technology is helping some Bay area students cut through tough obstacles. Robinson High School in Hillsborough County is crediting a new computer program for helping many students pass the writing portion of the FCAT. Student Brandon Glover said My Access, a web-based writing assessment software, can be used in the media […]

• April 29, 2005 FCAT Scores Rise in Marion County