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New York, NY, October 8, 2009 — Triumph Learning, the market leader in state-specific, standards-focused instruction that supports student instruction and a Haights Cross Communications company, said today that the State of Georgia Department of Education has adopted Triumph Learning’s Georgia Coach, GPS (Georgia Performance Standards) Edition, Standards-Based Instruction series of supplementary texts. The popular Georgia Coach series adopted by the state include English Language Arts, Grades 1-8; Mathematics, Grades 1-8; Science End of Course Test, Grades 1-8; Literature and Composition and American Literature and Composition, End of Course Test, Grade 9; and the GPS Gold Edition for English Language Arts for Grades 1-8.
According to John Lawler, President of Triumph Learning: “Triumph Learning has been working with Georgia teachers for over 25 years. Georgia school districts and the Georgia Department of Education have used Coach books more than any other product in the market to assist administrators and teachers in raising student performance in critical assessed skills. With each new edition of Coach, we have both reached out for feedback from teachers and curriculum specialists and taken care that new Georgia Coacheditions reflect the content, style, and format of new state standards and actual tests. The result is that this latest generation of the Georgia Coach series, GPS edition, is fully aligned with the Georgia Performance Standards and support students’ performance in the tests,” Lawler said.
The Georgia Coach, GPS Edition, is a grade-specific series that provides comprehensive instruction and practice on all the key skills and concepts covered by the Georgia Performance Standards. The series is based on the well-proven Coach instructional architecture of all-in-one diagnose, instruct, practice, and assess.
Georgia Coach is designed to familiarize students with the standards and fully prepares them for the GPS-based Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). Specific features in the series include:
- Full CRCT-based reading passages and bubble sheets in practice tests and mixed reviews.
- Full coverage of all assessable mathematics standards.
- Full-length pretest and post test in English/Language Arts and Mathematics.
- Full-length writing assignments for Grades 3, 5, and 8.
- Correlation charts to allow students to check off the standards and lessons as they master them.
- Teachers Guide, including competencies analysis charts, answer keys, additional mini-lessons, etc.
The state-adopted Georgia Coach, GPS Gold Edition for English Language Arts, for Grades 1-8, builds on the GPS Edition of standards-based instruction and adds key features such as:
- Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry reading passages.
- “Getting the Idea” sections to introduce important concepts discussed in the chapter.
- Test-taking tips and strategies.
- Coached reading passages with sidebar reading guide.
“We have heard from teachers throughout Georgia that Georgia Coach books have been used in a variety of settings to assist students in acquiring specific skills, concepts, and test-taking strategies,” says Gwen Burke, Triumph Learning’s Regional Vice President. “Educators all across the state say that our Georgia Coach series provides a great resource to be used in preparing and reviewing for the Criterion Reference Competency Test.”
For more information about Georgia Coach products, please visit
www.triumphlearning.com/GA or contact Gwen Burke at 678-615-3339 or
gseguin@triumphlearning.com.
About Triumph Learning, LLC:
Triumph Learning is the tenth-largest supplemental educational publisher in the US, and a market leader in state-specific test-preparation materials. Its three imprints (Coach, Buckle Down, and Options) are based in New York City, New York and Littleton, Massachusetts.
About Haights Cross:
Founded in 1997 and based in White Plains, NY, Haights Cross Communications is a premier educational and library publisher dedicated to creating the finest books, audio products, periodicals, software and online services, serving the following markets: K-12 supplemental education, public and school libraries, and consumers. Haights Cross companies include: Triumph Learning, Buckle Down Publishing and Options Publishing, and Recorded Books. For more information, visit www.haightscross.com. Triumph Learning is HCC’s test-preparation and intervention business and is comprised of its Coach, Buckle Down, and Options brands. Recorded Books is a leading publisher of unabridged audiobooks and other audio media for libraries, schools, and consumers, with operations in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
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