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Chicago (June 2001) - SAS inSchool today announced that it is
maintaining the server for a suite of educational assessment tools
called TAGLIT - Taking A Good Look at Instructional Technology
(http://www.taglit.org/). SAS
inSchool's efforts are on behalf of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation - specifically, the State Challenge Grants for Leadership
Development. The assessment tools help principals and other school
leaders gather, analyze, and report information about how technology
is used by teachers and students. Developed under the direction of
Dr. Sheila Cory for the North Carolina Principals' Executive Program,
the application was first put on the web with support from the
BellSouth Foundation for use in their BellSouth edu.pwr3 program. SAS
inSchool has worked with Dr. Cory to update the application and is now
hosting it for grant winners nationwide.
"This application is receiving almost 8,000 hits per
day," says John Boling, SAS inSchool Director. "TAGLIT is an
excellent planning tool for all schools," adds Tom Vander Ark,
Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation. "It provides reliable data that staffs can use to
plan for effective technology integration in the classroom and
throughout the building."
About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is dedicated to improving
people's lives by sharing advances in health and learning with the
global community. Led by Bill Gates' father, William H. Gates, Sr.,
and Patty Stonesifer, the Seattle-based foundation has an asset base
of $23.5 billion. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's State
Challenge Grants for Leadership Development aim to provide every
superintendent and principal in public and private schools with access
to quality leadership development focused on whole systems change and
technology integration by 2003.
About SAS inSchool
Winner of the 2000 Technology and Learning Award of Excellence and
the 2000 Eddie Award, SAS inSchool is a division of SAS Institute, the
world's largest privately held software company. Formed in January of
1997 to focus on the research and development of K-12 educational
technologies, SAS inSchool offers multimedia instructional software
and value-added assessment and research services. SAS inSchool will
begin providing educator learning and support services later this
year. For more information, visit our web site at http://www.SASinSchool.com.
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