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August 11, 2011

Agile Education Marketing lends their marketing database and expertise to TeachAde.com to expand educator access to a vast library of free resources

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The nation’s foremost education information organization partners with an innovative online community and resource center for educators to offer valuable classroom resources, networking and fund-raising tools at no cost

Denver, Colorado - August 9, 2011 - Agile Education Marketing, the nation’s education information and marketing services leader, is pleased to announce their partnership with TeachAde, an award-winning online community and resource site for educators. Using Agile’s comprehensive database of K-12 schools and educators TeachAde will be able to rapidly grow the number of educators who have access to TeachAde’s extensive library of free resources.

“We all know how hard the recession has been on schools. Classroom budgets have been slashed. Access to TeachAde’s database of high quality, free resources are just what our nation’s educators need to be able to do their jobs effectively,” said Robert O’Dell, Managing Partner of Agile. “This partnership with TeachAde is a great way for Agile to demonstrate our commitment to schools and really do something that will make a difference in the day-to-day lives of educators and students.”

“We are thrilled to have this opportunity to partner with Agile,” said Michael Pearce, CEO of TeachAde.com. “Our goal of supporting educators in the classroom is in perfect alignment. Agile’s unrivaled knowledge of the education marketplace will enable us both to provide an even greater depth of support for our nation’s educators.”

By using Teachade’s unique tools for educators and large database of free resources, educators can build a better classroom, discover new resources, collaborate with like-minded educators, and benefit from the collective knowledge of thousands of active users from all over the world. Organizations such as NEA Member Benefits, Adopt-A-Classroom and Disney have combined forces with TeachAde in pursuit of the same goal - to improve our nation’s education system by giving educators the support they so desperately need.

About Agile Education Marketing
Agile Education Marketing is an innovative education information firm that assists businesses selling products and services to educators with their marketing initiatives. Founded in 2009, Agile’s database of K-12 schools and personnel has rapidly grown to over 130,000 institutions and 3.4 million educators. Agile provides quality at-school and at-home mailing and e-mail lists along with custom data analytics, creative services and tactical consulting to provide more value for customer’s marketing investments and their results. For more information about Agile and their partners, visit www.agile-ed.com.

About TeachAde
Teachade.com is the first website designed specifically for educators that takes the best parts of social media, then turns them upside down in order to provide a place where educators are connected to free resources that meet their specific interests and needs. TeachAde is available free of charge and members consist of K-12 educators, college professors, parents and commercial and non-profit enterprises that serve our education system. Investor funding for TeachAde.com has been provided by Robert Potamkin, Chairman of Potamkin Companies. For more information please visit www.teachade.com or contact Dawn Mena at [email protected]

January 29, 2011

1/28/2010 Tell Congress: Investing in Education is an Investment in Our Nation #2

Filed under: NEA.org, NEAMB, US Congress — Tags: , , , , — mpearce@ teachade.com @ 3:43 am
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Tell Congress: Investing in Education is an Investment in Our Nation’s Future

This week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution to slash federal funding. If applied to education, these cuts would result in a loss of over $9 billion for education programs, devastating programs like Title I, IDEA, and Pell Grants and leaving millions of students without the resources they need to succeed.

While the Senate is not expected to act on these cuts, this House vote was the first step in a plan to reduce funding even further, with even more damaging consequences for students, schools and our nation.

Investing in education is an investment in our nation’s future. Research shows an inextricable link between investment in education and economic strength. Investing in education:

Increases productivity and ensures a competitive workforce Leads to higher earnings for educated workers, thereby generating higher tax payments at the local, state, and federal levels
Reduces dependence on public assistance programs
Raises wages across the board, as all workers, regardless of education level, earn more when there are more college graduates in the labor force.
Students get only one shot at an education. It is not their fault they are in school during a devastating economic crisis.

Take Action TODAY: Tell Congress to invest in education for our nation’s future.

Message for Policymakers: Listen to the Experts - Educators - on ESEA Reauthorization
In his January 25 State of the Union Address, President Obama called focused on education, encouraging increased investment in public education with a focus on career and college readiness. The President stressed a number of key education initiatives, including:

Replacing the No Child Left Behind Act with “a law that is more flexible and focused on what’s best for our kids.”
Making permanent the American Opportunity Tax Credit, worth $10,000 for four years of college.
Strengthening America’s public higher education system, with the goal of ensuring that America has the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by the end of the decade. Obama stressed the important role community colleges play in training workers for new careers.
Reforming immigration laws to ensure talented and responsible students can work in the United States after graduation.
Read NEA’s reaction to the President’s speech.

The President’s emphasis on education foreshadows a likely focus on ESEA reauthorization early in the new Congress. Many new Members of Congress have little expertise on education issues and all Member of Congress need reminders of how their decisions impact educators and the students we serve.

Take Action Today: Tell Congress that every child deserves a great public school, and that legislators need listen to educators if they want to learn how to make that happen.

June 22, 2009

Preventing the Summer “Brain Drain”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — 6496 @ 8:13 am
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Always a hot topic at the end of the school year is how much information are students going to lose over the summer? Some researchers suggest, as found in this article from the Washington Post that most of the loss is in math, and not in subjects such as reading where most school systems participate in required summer reading.

Are you experiencing a summer brain drain come fall with your students? Do you think more of an emphasis should be placed on math over the summer? Please comment below.


June 20, 2009

Breaking News: Congress and the President kick tobacco’s butts by John R. Seffrin, PhD

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — mpearce@ teachade.com @ 3:56 am
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This is some kind of great news!

February 12, 2009

Tutor Match, very cool!

Filed under: Tutor — Tags: , , , — 10 @ 9:35 pm
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What a great site. www.tutormatch.com Tutor Match (formerly Tutor2000) was established in 1996 to help students easily connect with qualified tutors nationwide. Today, Tutor Match offers a directory of thousands of tutors waiting to assist students with homework help. We are dedicated not only to matching the right student with the right tutor, but also protecting the privacy of all of our tutors and students.

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