Press Releases

• eScholar Changes Use of Data in Education with Introduction of Collaborative Student-Centric Goal Planning Solution eScholar today announced eScholar myTrack™, a student-centric solution that facilitates collaborative goal planning.

  January 11, 2012

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• eScholar Launches Interactive Blog Focussed on All Things Education New corporate blog "Transform:Ed Observations" introduced in conjunction with eScholar's new Corporate website

  December 22, 2011

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• eScholar Named One of the Readers' Choice Top 100 Products of 2011 by District Administration Magazine
  

  November 21, 2011

  eScholar, a leader in driving the application of research and data to personalize education, today announced that the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 was awarded District Administration Magazine's Readers' Choice Top 100 Products of 2011.  After receiving record nominations, the Readers' Choice award recognized outstanding products that are credited with making a difference in education and continuing to push the level of innovation... More
• eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® is Selected by the Texas Education Agency for Statewide, District-Facing Data Warehouse -
  

  November 9, 2011

  eScholar, a leader in driving the application of research and data to personalize education, today announced that the Texas Education Agency has selected eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 to provide a statewide, district-facing warehouse available to every district in the state.  With this deployment to more than 1,100 districts educating almost five-million students in Texas, eScholar will provide a longitudinal data foundation that captures current data from various sources to improve the education process and results... More
• eScholar Attends STATS-DC 2011 Conference in Bethesda, Maryland -
  

  August 1, 2011

  eScholar visits downtown Bethesda once again for the 2011 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) STATS-DC Conference.  The conference held over 100 presentations and demonstrations and offered great networking experiences and information and updates on data and reporting in education.  eScholar and its customers gave a number of presentations which included Interstate Mobility, A New York State Data Model Approach for Teacher Evaluation and Instructional Improvement, Using Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Data to Gain Insight on Individual Education Outcomes, and District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education Implements Unique Student Indentifier System.  eScholar Founder, Shawn Bay, partnered with Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council President and CEO, Michael Sessa, to deliver a session on Standardizing the Standards.  This year's keynote speakers included the NCES Commissioner Jack Buckley and U.S. Department of Education Chief Privacy Officer, Kathleen Styles.  The conference is designed for education researchers, policymakers and the data system managers from all levels of government who want to share innovations in the design and implementation of education data collections and informations systems and to provide insight and comment on technical and policy issues related to the collection, maintenance, and use of education data. 
• eScholar Delivers Education Market's Most Robust Longitudinal Data Warehouse Solution -
  

  July 19, 2011

  eScholar, a technology leader in education data, today announced the immediate availability of its latest eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® solution (eScholar CDW).  Driven by customer feedback, eScholar's CDW v13 adds significant enhancements throughout its entire suite of PK thru Postsecondary solutions to deliver near-real time access of valuable longitudinal information to improve the education process.  Existing customers of eScholar CDW will automatically receive and begin to experience the benefits of the solution immediately... More
• eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 Selected by California's Santa Ana Unified School District to Create Early Alert System For At Risk Students -
  

  June 15, 2011

  eScholar, a leader in education data, today announced that its eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 has been selected by Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD).  The second California school district to adopt eScholar, SAUSD will initially deploy the longitudinal-based warehouse, code name "Project Arrow" to each of SAUSD's high schools in the fall of 2011 as the foundation for their "early alert system".  The eScholar solution provides integrated longitudinal data that can be used to predict outcomes and support student success in high school graduation and college and career readiness... More
• eScholar Attends the 24th Annual MIS Conference in Austin, Texas -
  

  February 28, 2011

  eScholar visited the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin, Texas, to attend the 24th Annual National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Management Information Systems Conference.  The 3 day "Deep in the Heart of Data" conference offered 125 presentation and workshops by practitioners about management information systems for K-12 education.  eScholar and its customers conducted 16 presentations of which included Mobility and Identification-Solving the Interstate Problem, Leveraging Technology Toward EDEN Compliance and Building an Effective Workforce Using a P-20/W SLDS.  This year's keynote speakers included NCES Commissioner Jack Buckley and NCES Chief Statistician Marilyn Seastrom.  Additional keynotes were given by Texas Education Agency (TEA) Commissioner Robert Scott and TEA Deputy Commissioner for Finance and Administration, Adam Jones.  The conference brings the education community together to discuss information collection, management, transmittal, and reporting in school districts and state education agencies.
• eScholar to Support Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Effectiveness Initiatives Toward Improving Instructional Practice -
  

  February 21, 2011

  eScholar is pleased to announce that its upcoming release of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12, scheduled for July 2011, will include enhanced support for collecting and analyzing Teacher Evaluation and Teacher Effectiveness data.  eScholar, the leader in education data management solutions, has been supporting customers' use of these data to enhance and improve instruction of students throughout education... More
• eScholar Attends STATS-DC 2010 Conference in Bethesda, Maryland -
  

  July 30, 2010

  eScholar visits Bethesda once more for the National Center of Education Statistics' annual Summer Data Conference.  This conference enables state and local educators, members of government agencies, and others to share information about developments and issues in the collection, reporting, and use of education data.  Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, delivered a keynote speech focused on the Department of Education's commitment to using robust data systems to inform education reform.  Other keynote speakers included Stuart Kerachsky, Acting Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, and John Q. Easton, Director of the Institute of Education Sciences, appointed by President Obama.  The conference was held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda lasting 3 days providing attendees with information on professional networking, updates on federal and national activities affecting data collection and reporting, and information regarding the top new approaches in collection, reporting and using education statistics.
• eScholar Releases Latest Version of Its Postsecondary Education Data Warehouse Product -
  

  July 21, 2010

  eScholar LLC, the leader in education data management software, has released the latest version of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary (CDW-PS).  CDW-PS provides state education agencies and other interested organizations with the ability to more effectively monitor, track and analyze data associated with postsecondary student, institution and staff activity...  More
• eScholar Launches Version 12 of eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 -
  

  July 15, 2010

  eScholar LLC, the leader in education data management solutions, has announced the release of version 12 of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 (CDW-PK12). Successfully implemented by eight state education agencies including New York, Nebraska, Georgia, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Iowa, Kentucky and North Carolina, CDW-PK12 is the nation's most widely used PK-12 data warehouse product...   More
• eScholar Launches Version 7 of eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students -
  

  December 22, 2009

  eScholar LLC, the leader in education data management software, has announced the release of Version 7 of the eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students. eScholar Uniq-ID® for Students is the nation’s most widely used product for assigning, maintaining, and managing lifelong unique student identifiers across time, location, and source...  More
• Uniquely Identifying Students - Not As Easy As It Seems — November 10, 2009
  White Plains, NY - State and local education agencies are facing increasing challenges in surprising places as they build out systems to help educators improve the quality and effectiveness of education... More
• eScholar Leverages Pitney Bowes Business Insight in New Data Warehouse Product - October 29, 2009
• Pitney Bowes Business Insight, the leading global provider of data quality and location intelligence solutions, today announced that eScholar LLC, a leader in education data management software, is leveraging the Sagent® Data Flow™ Solution v6.5 with the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary... More
  
  eScholar Launches Data Warehouse Product for Postsecondary Education— October 1, 2009
  eScholar, the leader in education data management software, has announced the release of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for Postsecondary.  This product extends the data model of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse to now include not only early childhood and P-12 education data but also a wide-range of education data specific to postsecondary issues... More
• eScholar Releases Version 11.0 of eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12 — July 21, 2009
  eScholar, the leader in education data management software, has announced the release of version 11 of the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® for PK-12... More
• eScholar Expands Software Portfolio with Solution to Assist States with EDEN Reporting — April 6, 2009
  White Plains, NY - Working closely with a number of its State customers, eScholar has developed a comprehensive solution for generating EDEN files either from data residing in the eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® system or data from other sources... More
• eScholar Customers Recognized at Washington, D.C. Meeting Featuring Secretary of Education. Leaders Discuss Increased Emphasis and Support for Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems — March 17, 2009
  White Plains, NY - eScholar customers were formally recognized by the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) at the DQC’s recent "Leveraging the Power of Data to Improve Education" summit. At the event Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania accepted the State Policy Maker of the Year award for the leadership his state has shown in developing an integrated P-20 Statewide Longitudinal Data System. The states of Kansas and New Mexico were also honored for their efforts... More
• eScholar Releases Version 2.0 of eScholar Uniq-ID® for Staff — September 12, 2008
  eScholar, the nation's leading provider of student identification systems, is rolling out Version 2.0 of its eScholar Uniq-ID® for Staff application... More
• eScholar Launches the Latest Version of its Education Data Warehouse for Longitudinal Analysis and Reporting — June 26, 2008
  The latest release includes a new data domain and over 120 new data elements while delivering improved performance for faster load times, as well as enhanced data quality and validation features... More
• eScholar LLC Selected to Assign Unique Identification Numbers for Students Around the Globe — June 24, 2008
  eScholar LLC, the leader in K-12 education data management software, has been selected by the Department of Defense Education Activity to assign unique student identifiers for their students located on military bases around the world... More
• eScholar Technology to be Foundation of US Education Department's Migrant Student Information Exchange — October 25, 2006
  eScholar LLC, the nation’s leading provider of K-12 longitudinal data systems, will be teaming with prime contractor Deloitte Consulting LLP to provide services to the U.S. Department of Education for the Migrant Student Information Exchange (MSIX), a five year contract awarded to give States the capability to effectively and efficiently exchange migrant student records nationally... More
• eScholar Sets Standard for U.S. Department of Education’s National Data Model — August 15, 2006
  eScholar, the leading K-12 data warehousing company, has contributed definitions for over 750 data elements to the U.S. Department of Education’s comprehensive pK-12 Data Model project, making eScholar’s data elements the foundation for the national data model... More