MY Access!® News

• March 7, 2012 Building 21st Century Writers

  -Jennifer Demski, original article from:

   
  During what might have in the distant past been called “quiet time” in Arlene Anderson’s fourth-grade classroom, many of her students are glued to their netbooks. The intense, enthusiastic focus and the hushed chatter amongst the students are all about high scores and strategy. But the students [...]

• October 21, 2011 Students Eager for Access

   
  When it comes to writing essays, 13-year-old Thomas Hamburger thinks using a pencil is overrated.
   
  He’s used to typing his essays on computers, where he can look up help online and make changes to his assignments easily.
   
  “When I use a pencil, I can’t see what I did wrong,” the eighth-grader said as he pulled up past [...]

• September 2, 2011 Harrison County School District Receives Foundation Grant Award

   
  Vantage Learning recently presented the Harrison County School District in Mississippi with a $115,200 grant to provide professional development training and online instructional tools to help students improve their writing skills.
   
  As part of the Vantage Learning Keystone Partner Program, Harrison County will receive educational technology funding to employ the instructional writing and assessment program MY [...]

• August 5, 2011 Pass Christian Public Schools Testimonial

  Pass Christian Public Schools have experienced increases in student writing and have found that MY Access! has been an extremely helpful tool in achieving this success.

• June 16, 2010 The WRITE Stuff

  -Angel Carpenter, MyEagleNews.com
  Local teachers use data to help students hone their skills
  CANYON CITY – Above average is not good enough at Humbolt Elementary School. With help from their teachers, students at the school have made great strides over the past school year, increasing their proficiency in writing.
  In 2008-09 the students had math and reading scores [...]

• May 4, 2010 The New School

  -Sepp Jannotta, Ravalli Republic
  Kathleen Dent wants to see Hamilton students make the most of the new Web-based tools that are transforming the American classroom. Where schools were run on a model that has one teacher, chalk or dry erase pen in hand, standing in front of 20 to 30 students, technology now allows that same [...]

• March 24, 2010 Waipahu Sees Rise In Writing Skills

  -Alana Folen, MidWeek
  Waipahu High School received $10,800 from Vantage Learning earlier this month to help its students improve their writing skills.
  The donation will allow 300 students to use MY Access!, an online instructional writing program that’s been shown to improve achievement across the curriculum.
  “With this program students are able to go online and write to [...]

• February 26, 2010 California District Implements Writing Program Throughout Elementary Schools

  -Scott Aronowitz, T.H.E Journal
  Stanislaus Union School District in Stanislaus, CA, reported that it implement Vantage Learning’s MY Access! writing software for the 5th and 6th grades in all of its five elementary schools. The program is being funded through the federal Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program.
  The software analyzes more than 350 characteristics of an [...]

• February 26, 2010 Government Grant Helps Stainislaus Union To Sustain 21st Learning Technology

  -Mini Swamy, TMCnet
  A government grant assigned for the purpose of Enhancing Education through Technology, commonly referred to as EETT, is to be implemented shortly into Stanislaus Union’s elementary schools, giving them the opportunity to learn from an online learning program. This is intended to benefit an entire school district.
  Initially, Stanislaus Union School District had [...]

• February 11, 2010 Online Writing Program Shows Results In Brooklyn Student Performance

  -Emily Groves, Norwich Bulletin
  Computer gives instant feedback
  Sixth-grade students have been using an online writing program that gives them immediate feedback on their compositions since November, and they and teachers have already seen results.
  “What it is, is artificial intelligence,” Brooklyn Middle School Principal Alan Yanku said.
  The automated essay program, My Access, is a product of Vantage [...]