MY Access!® News

• 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 […]

• August 13, 2009 Writing Better

  -Education Matters Savvy Teachers Find New Way to Combat Students’ Text Messaging Habits while Gearing Up for State Exams It’s an uphill battle that teachers face every year: how to keep their students on track with their writing, especially in time for their upcoming state exams. Shorthand text messaging habits like “Wat r u doin […]

• August 6, 2009 Vantage Launches MY Access! Grant Program

  -David Nagel, T.H.E Journal Vantage Learning this week announced it will award more than $650,000 in grants to school districts to help with implementation and professional development for the MY Access! interactive writing suite. MY Access! is an online writing tool that’s designed to improve student writing proficiency. It uses Web-based forms that allow students […]

• August 5, 2009 New Technology Database Could Provide Education Reform A Chance

  -Wamara Mwine – White House Examiner, examiner.com U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and President Obama announced new funding to support Race to the Top Fund which will reward states for innovative education reform. The program is designed to fund state grants that produce data which ties student achievement to teacher performance. This funding will […]

• May 5, 2009 Educational Foundation Marks Achievements

  -Mary Morgan, The Ann Arbor Chronicle Event at Scarlett Middle School noted district’s challenges, too “Everybody’s proud in the Scarlett Nation!” Ben Edmondson, principal of Scarlett Middle School, proclaimed to the 200 or so people gathered in the school’s cafeteria Saturday night. He could have been talking about the eighth-grade boys who were dressed in […]

• February 25, 2009 Washington State School District Deploys Online Writing Program

  -Scott Aronowitz, T.H.E Journal Washington State School District Deploys Online Writing Program Lake Washington School District in Washington has rolled out Vantage Learning’s MY Access! online writing and evaluation tool to help its students maintain their high writing test scores. MY Access! allows students to submit assigned essays online, analyzes an essay using criteria based […]

• January 14, 2009 Fifth Graders Improve Their Writing Skills With MY Access!

  MY Access! helps fifth grade students improve their writing skills and better their chances of getting higher scores on the TCAP Writing test.  

• November 1, 2008 Using Technology To Overcome Writing Barriers

  -Dr. Arthur Stellar, techLEARNING For the Taunton Public School District, the annual Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams were an annual source of anxiety. Too many of our students struggled with the reading and writing questions on the test’s content sections. For example, in 2004, 46 percent of students did not pass the English language […]

• October 30, 2008 Web-based Program Helps Students Improve Writing Skills, Expression

  -Mary  Dolan, The Item Students in Clarendon School District 1 are getting a little help with their writing, not in an old-fashioned pen-and-paper sort of way but rather by way of a more modern method, a Web tutorial program. For the second year, Clarendon 1 has implemented MY Access! by Vantage Learning, a Web-based writing […]

• October 25, 2008 In The Classroom, Tech Options Expand

  -Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek One well-to-do district shows the growing ways teaching and technology can mix. In its use of classroom technologies, Arcadia Unified School District in California’s San Gabriel Valley could be considered a role model for other school districts–if they all happen to have the means that Arcadia has. Because when it comes […]