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- Apex Learning Acquires Beyond Books
News Release, May 13, 2003 — Apex Learning today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Beyond Books. - Textbooks offered online
Trenton Times, February 17, 2003 — BeyondBooks.com, an Internet site offering online texts for students, has been finding its way into district sixth- and eighth-grade social studies classes since December.... - Beyond Books offers exceptional enrichment curriculum in an intuitive, well organized format
UTD Today, April 2002
I have had the exceptional good fortune to test out a commercial site that has enormous potential... - Beyond Books banks on instructional design and pricing
Heller Reports, Vol 13 No 6, April 2002 - Beyond Books Receives National Recognition for Its Award-Winning Online Content, April 2002.
- Hot Websites by Linda Lindroth
Teaching K-8 Magazine, November/December 2001 issue. - Beyond Books Selected for Intel's Model School Program
Reuters Business Report, October 29, 2001 — Beyond Books on-line curriculum content was selected for inclusion in the Intel Model School Program. - Schoolbooks taking back seat to online service
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11, 2001 — Brendan Murphy, 15, doesn't touch a single printed page when reading his biology textbook. Instead, he points and clicks... - Beyond Books
Home Education Magazine, September/October 2001 issue. - Beyond Books delivers an online alternative to traditional textbooks
Technology & Learning Magazine, September 2001 issue. - New Subscription Internet Site for Art History Curriculum in Secondary Schools
NAEA (National Art Education Association) News, August 2001 issue — A new Internet subscription-service program for secondary schools, designed by Beyond Books, focuses on art history. It features a 20,000 year survey of the history of painting, from prehistoric times to the present, and it encompasses major artistic movements and styles and individual artists and their works. - Beyond Books Part of $27 Million Arizona Technology Initiative
August 21, 2001 — Beyond Books online curriculum programs will be accessible to all 440,000 middle and high school students in the Arizona public school system beginning in September 2001. - Beyond Books named Media & Methods 2001 Awards Portfolio Winner
July 31, 2001 — "Here is a total online curriculum that includes content, links, interactive activities, lesson plans, guest speakers and more." - Henrico County Public Schools to Purchase Beyond Books
July 23, 2001 Excite News Service — Part of Largest Laptop Initiative in U.S. Education History - From May/June 2001 issue of MultiMedia Schools
"Beyond Books is one of the best resource sites I have seen to engage students.... It is crisp, lively, and appeals to today's visually attuned students." - School Library Journal Review, April 2001 issue
Beyond Books provides a wealth of information, and is easy to use and convenient. - The California Art Education Association review of Beyond Books
April 30, 2001 - Reading Goes Beyond The Printed Page
Printed in Curriculum Administrator, March 2001 - Beyond Books™ Wins Award for K-12 Curriculum Excellence
Printed in Curriculum Administrator, January 25, 2001 - Main Line Life January 3, 2001
Local Entrepreneur takes classroom education Beyond Books to Internet - Teacher Magazine, October 2000 issue
Read My Links ... An upstart dot-com takes on textbook publishers with online curriculum that promises to tame the wild and woolly Internet. - Wall Street Reporter Interview (8/25/00) Online streaming interview
- New Forum Publishers, Inc., Closes $6 Million in Private Financing for Beyond Books Educational Web Site From Yahoo! Finance
- Online Education Leader beyondbooks.com Offers Cyber Explorations Through U.S. Political History
To highlight the technology initiatives of the 2000 Republican National Convention and focus attention on a solution to the student achievement gap in our nation's schools, beyondbooks.com, official provider of online educational content for PoliticalFest, takes 'Fest visitors on a series of educational Cyber Explorations through our nation's political history. - Cybertexts take learning beyond books
MSNBC, February 14, 2000
"Textbooks are really just two dimensional and flat, but this is so much more ... This isn't saying that books are going by the wayside. [The Internet] just provides so much more than I could ever provide access to and my students' parents could ever afford." ... "Having just a book is so 1900s," said 14-year-old Chris Barth of Cherry Hill, N.J. "This is like the 21st century now." - From Books to Beyond
Philadelphia Business Journal
Jim Masker, a history teacher at The Cate School, a private high school near Santa Barbara, Calif., said it "provides access to such a wide variety of resources that you really have the opportunity to come to appreciate American history." Masker said his students' only complaint about the service "is a great one from a teacher's perspective. They say, 'There's so much information there that I found myself just wanting to explore things.'" - Cherry Hill using online textbooks
Courier Post, May 22, 1999
"'I think in many places it can replace the textbook as a resource,' said Dick Levy, the district's assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. 'The potential is great, not only to learn more, but to learn more in-depth.'" - Plugged in to America's past
The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 23, 1999
"The electronic text, part of a project called Beyond Books, fit into teacher Dallas Heinemann's agenda to make American history more accessible to her eighth-grade students. For the last two months, her lesson plans have included regular trips to the computer lab, where students were able to explore topics ranging from the impact of slavery to inventors and inventions." - New Forum Publishers Inc. Launches Beyond Books
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 4, 1999 -- New Forum Publishers Inc. announces the launch of Beyond Books™, an Internet-based source of educational content that parallels, expands-on and deepens current curricula in the nation's high schools and middle schools. Beyond Books programs are now available to every school with Internet access.
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