Admission is competitive and primarily based on the High School Placement Test, a standardized test by Scholastic Testing Service, taken in January of applicants' eighth grade year (around age 13).
BookScan, part of VNU of the Netherlands, said the other publishers who had agreed to pay for its services included Scholastic, the Hyperion division of Walt Disney, the Houghton Mifflin division of Vivendi Universal, W. W. Norton & Company, and John Wiley & Sons.
Rhee formally came out in support of the DREAM Act, which provides a path to citizenship -- either through military service or scholastic achievements -- for the children of undocumented immigrants.
Mr. Moss, 32, is the general manager of the after-school products and services unit of Scholastic Inc., the educational publisher in New York.
Scholastic has BookFlix, a subscription service for schools and libraries that pairs a video storybook with a nonfiction e-book on a related topic.
For my progressive family, God was synonymous with mercy, service, social justice, scholastic life and art.
In many districts, teaching is being supplemented by private vendors of tutoring and by such test coaching services as Sylvan Learning, Scholastic, Voyager and Princeton Review.
It has the numbing feel of a compare-and-contrast slide lecture, the scholastic consequence of art forced to service information.
"It's not surprising that people are going to be doing more subscriptions with their content libraries," Margery Mayer, president of Scholastic Education, said of Disney's new service.
