WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc.
(Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced support for the Common Core State
Standards, which are now directly accessible for the K-12 community
within the Blackboard Learn™, Release 9.1 and ANGEL Edition
platforms. The integration makes it easy for teachers and
administrators to search the standards database from the course
environment to ensure that courses and content are aligned to the
new standards.
To date, 39 U.S. states and territories and the District of Columbia have announced that they
will adopt the Common Core State Standards, which define the
knowledge and skills students should have in English and math
during their K-12 careers in order to be successful in college and
the workforce.
Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1 already offers alignment with
existing academic standards for all 50 states and integrated lesson
planning. These new capabilities help teachers align their
instruction to standards based curricular requirements and generate
reports on consistency. Release 9.1 also includes automated
standards mapping which can save districts and teachers countless
hours of manual updates when standards change. This capability can
also help schools and districts make the transition to Common Core
standards much faster.
"The Common Core standards are a key component of education
reform efforts, and expanding our standards database to include
them is an important step in aligning our course platform to the
needs of schools and districts," said John
Canuel, Vice President K-12 Education Strategy. "This is a
key part of our overall commitment to standards based teaching and
learning, and leveraging technology to better support teachers and
students."
The Common Core standards were developed in collaboration with
teachers, school administrators, and experts as part of the Common
Core State Standards Initiative, a state led effort coordinated by
the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and
the Council of Chief State School Officers.
For more information about Blackboard Learn for K-12, please
visit http://www.talktobb.com/k12_overview.html.
For more information about the Common Core State Standards
Initiative, please visit: http://www.corestandards.org.
About Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) is a global leader in enterprise
technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of
millions of students and learners around the world every day.
Blackboard's solutions allow thousands of higher education, K-12,
professional, corporate, and government organizations to extend
teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and
security, and communicate more effectively with their communities.
Founded in 1997, Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Asia
and Australia.
Any statements in this press release about future
expectations, plans and prospects for Blackboard and other
statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans,"
"expects," "will," and similar expressions, constitute
forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ
materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements
as a result of various important factors, including the factors
discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed
on November 5, 2010 with the SEC. In
addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press
release represent the Company's views as of December 6, 2010. The Company anticipates that
subsequent events and developments will cause the Company's views
to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these
forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company
specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to
December 6, 2010.
SOURCE Blackboard Inc.