• What’s New – Solutions: High School Software
• Customer Feedback – Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades
• Merit Listens
• Recommended Resource – Microsoft Lesson Plans
• Grants for U.S. Educators

Merit has created Solutions: High School Software. These carefully targeted selections of Merit’s reading, vocabulary, writing, grammar, and math programs offer focused instruction and contextual help as well as quick, clear feedback. Texts and graphics will motivate school-age students, while educators will receive quantifiable results.

Learn more at: http://www.meritsoftware.com/solutions/high_school

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“I think the software has been really effective. We’ve been really happy with it in our after-school programs at both the middle and high schools,” remarks an educator at Southwestern Community College in Sylva, NC, about Merit Software’s Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades.

This program improves reading comprehension skills. Students learn how to identify main ideas and sequence, draw inferences, and understand vocabulary words through textual clues. Teachers may track student progress and create reports.

For a complete software description or to try the downloadable evaluation version, go to:
http://www.meritsoftware.com/developing_critical_thinking_skills_for_upper_grades

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Struggling students have very different needs. Is our software helping you?

Please let us know: http://www.meritsoftware.com/contact_us

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Microsoft provides free, online Lesson Plans on its Education site. Teachers may search by grade level, learning area, and theme. Themes include Energy, Famous People, Space, and Sports. Links to Virtual Classroom Tours and How-To Articles are also provided.

Visit: http://www.microsoft.com/Education/LessonPlans.aspx

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The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation awards funding to non-profit organizations that serve low-income youth ranging in age from 9 to 24. Organizations, particularly those with a record for improving educational and work-related skills, may complete the foundation’s online survey to receive consideration. Funding can be used to purchase educational technology.

Go to: http://www.emcf.org/grants/index.htm

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