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company that makes cloud-based, Pre-K–12 educational software and adaptive assessments. Renaissance employs about 1,000 employees in nine U.S. cities and subsidiaries in Canada, the United
Kingdom, Korea, and Australia. Renaissance's solutions are used in one-third of U.S. schools and more than 90
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says, "the passion and serendipity of choosing a book at the library based on the subject or the cover of the first page is nearly gone, as well as the excitement of reading a book simply for pleasure. This is not all the fault of
Renaissance, which I believe is trying to help schools encourage
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ticker ALSI with a market capitalization of $ 44.8 million. The company was publicly traded until
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best practices are nearly twice as likely to be college and career ready. These results held true for all grades and populations of interest (struggling readers, English learners, and students in free or reduced lunch programs) and rose with the integrity of program use.
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s critics say it limits a student's recreational reading to a list of books that fall in their book level, in order to accrue "points", and that the system trivializes books and undermines reading by reducing it to a competitive game. Susan
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and released its AlphaSmart hardware, which was discontinued in 2013. It purchased e-reading platform
Subtext in June 2013. In February 2015, Renaissance acquired UClass, a cloud-based storage and content management service, for an undisclosed
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