ECS has partnered with Magic Software to offer their market-leading STAAR MASTER® work-texts and practice tests on e-books and e-readers for the first time, in July 2020. This is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and school closures, as well as the recent guidance by TEA to Texas Schools for Fall 2020 school reopening.

Ed-tech solutions for K-12 are a dime a dozen, with vendors vying for business through promises to deliver the latest and greatest products for your students and teachers. Many companies throw around buzzwords such as “computer-adaptive,” “differentiated instruction,” and “machine learning,” in an attempt to assure stakeholders that their product will level the playing field and provide assessments and instruction to meet the needs of students at every level of competency.

ECS Learning Systems, which publishes test prep and instruction materials for kindergarten through 12th grade school curriculum, donated $20,000 worth of STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) test prep booklets and materials to William B. Travis Elementary School last week, as a thank you to the Marshall High School student led Starfish Society tutoring program.

ECS Learning Systems, the leading Integrated Standards Prep™ company and developer of STAAR MASTER®, announced today its CEO David Cumberbatch is speaking at the ASU GSV Summit this week in San Diego.

ECS Learning Systems, the leading Integrated Standards Prep™ company and developer of STAAR MASTER®, announced today the new STAAR MASTER® Score Guarantee to ensure Texas teachers and schools see STAAR performance improvements year over year.

This week ends with Springboard Education’s acquisition of Kids’ Adventures, a provider of before- and after-school programs. Also, Asteria Education has acquired ECS Learning Systems, and Aperture Education and Kickboard are partnering to assist schools with collecting, monitoring and analyzing data on student behavior.