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Three of the Nation’s Largest School Districts Choose netTrekker d.i. for Web-Safe Searching
Two Top Florida School Districts and Baltimore County Public Schools Adopt netTrekker d.i. – Total Number of Students with Access Now Over 12 Million!
Cincinnati, OH, October 2, 2008 – Three of our nation’s largest school districts have chosen netTrekker d.i., the #1 K-12 educational search tool,to ensure their students are searching safely online. Now educators in Florida’s Broward County Public Schools and The School District of Palm Beach County, and Maryland’s Baltimore County Public Schools will be able to provide their students and teachers with netTrekker d.i.’s top-notch educational tools and resources.
The three new district-wide adoptions bring the total number of students with access to netTrekker d.i. to over 12 million. Developed by Thinkronize, Inc., netTrekker d.i. is used by over 600,000 teachers in 21,000 schools in all 50 states.
Eleven of the top 25 school districts in the U.S. have district-wide subscriptions to netTrekker d.i. Florida’s Broward County Public Schools, located in Fort Lauderdale, is the nation’s 6th largest district with 283 schools, and The School District of Palm Beach County is the 11th largest district, with 185 schools. Maryland’s Baltimore County Public Schools, the nation’s 25th largest district, has 174 schools.
All educators were universally impressed by how well netTrekker d.i. integrates with other products to provide a seamless, standards-based solution for their schools. According to Gary Weidenhamer, Director, Educational Technology for The School District of Palm Beach County, “netTrekker d.i. provides resources that are standards based, Lexiled, and available by grade level for each subject area. The search results are filtered to provide safe and accurate digital resources for both the teacher and student. The responses from our early adopters have been extremely positive.”
"Broward is making netTrekker d.i. available to our Title I teachers and students via its BEEP Teacher and Student Portals so that our teachers, students, and parents can feel secure using it to find educationally sound and appropriate web sites for teaching and learning," said Dr. Jeanine Gendron, Director Instructional Technology, Broward County Public Schools. “It will be an excellent instructional resource for our learning community."
According to Fran Glick, Resource Teacher, Baltimore County Public Schools,
“netTrekker d.i. provides our students, teachers, and parents with 24/7 access to quality web sites evaluated for their educational appropriateness and reliability. Lexile results and built in read aloud support enable teachers to meet the needs of all learners. We are confident that the inclusion of netTrekker d.i. in our digital content offerings will benefit students and teachers.”
About netTrekker d.i.
netTrekker d.i. is the #1 K-12 educational search tool that transforms digital content into safe, valuable, custom designed resources for educators and students. Unlike ordinary search engines, netTrekker d.i. provides fast and easy access to more than 300,000 digital resources that have been evaluated by a team of expert educators for superior quality and academic appropriateness, organized by grade and readability level and aligned with state standards. The company’s unmatched proprietary technology adds valuable differentiated instruction features to the content mix. Using netTrekker d.i., educators, school librarians, students, and parents save valuable time because they are directed to relevant, reliable, websites every time—meaning less time spent on searching and more time focused on teaching, learning, and achieving. For more information visit www.netTrekker.com.
About Thinkronize
Founded in 1999, Thinkronize is a leader in the digital delivery of K-12 educational content and is dedicated to enhancing the education of today’s youth with highly effective technologies that deliver the rich educational value of the Internet to every child in a safe, relevant, easy-to-use format. With the mission to help every child learn and a belief that technology can transform education, Thinkronize was first to market with a standards-based educational search engine, utilizing the services of Academic Benchmarks (www.AcademicBenchmarks.com), the premier provider of comprehensive standards-based K-12 educational databases, alignment tools, and integration products. Thinkronize’s flagship product, netTrekker d.i., is the #1 educational search tool in K-12 schools and is currently used in over 21,000 schools nationwide. Peers, educators, and parents have honored Thinkronize and netTrekker d.i. over 25 times for its contribution to education. In 2007, netTrekker d.i. was named the Best Education Solution in SIIA's CODiE award competition. In addition, Thinkronize was named to the 2007 Inc. 5000 and 2006 Inc. 500 lists as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States. The company was founded by Robert Reinders and currently serves over 12 million students in all 50 states, including adoptions by key districts and states nationwide. For more information visit www.Thinkronize.com or phone 877-517-1125.
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