Press

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Recent Press Coverage

1. The Daily Grafton - January 23, 2011 - "Grafton Students Get a Hand from ASSISTments" - PDF
2. Maine Association for Middle Level Education Winter 2012 Newsletter (see page 5)
3. The NAESP announced a Partnershipwith ASSISTments
4. The Metro West Daily News - October 3, 2011 - "Homework program catches on in MetroWest" by Scott O'Connell. Read it here.
5. "Here and Now" by Robin Young as part of a National Public Radio show on June 21, 2011. She interviewed Professor Heffernan.
6. The Boston Globe - May 5, 2011 - Yvonne Abraham's column on the back story behind the creation of ASSISTments. Click here for the article (and the song)
7. The Worcester Telegram - June 16, 2011 - On $500,000 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant received.
8. Schools.com - March 3, 2011 - Web-based Tutor Gives Math Class A New Feel. Available here: story and an easy to print version here.
9. District Administrator Magazine - March 2011 - What is Your Data Integration Strategy? - This story highlighted Educational Data Mining and ASSISTments. Available here.
10. Neil Heffernan and Cristina Heffernan gave an invited talk at the University of Illinois at Chicago, hosted by Jim Pellegrino and Susan Goldman. Watch the talk here.
11. ScienceDaily.com - February 14, 2011 - Year-End Test Scores Significantly Improved in Schools Using Web-based Tutor - Available here:[1].
12. Ellsworth American (Ellsworth, Maine) - January 18. 2011 - Learning Curve - Available here:The Ellsworth American.
13. Education Week - December 13, 2010 - Data Mining' Gains Traction in Education ' by Sarah D. Sparks appeared on the front page of Education Week. One of Heffernan's award winning papers is cited.
14. Telegram & Gazette - December 4, 2010 - "WPI to help redesign school math curriculum". Available here: JPG
15. National Educational Technology Plan - November 2010 - Arne Duncan announces the National Educational Technology Plan. The plan cites ASSISTments.
16. The Two Towers - Professor Heffernan was featured as Professor the the Week in the WPI student newspaper.
17. Older Press is here.

WPI Press Releases

1. WPI Receives $500,000 Award from Gates and Hewlett Foundations' Next Generation Learning Challenges
2. WPI Launches a New Graduate Program in Learning Sciences and Technologies
3. WPI is a Partner in National Center for Cognition and Mathematics Instruction
4. At D.C. Conference, WPI PhD Student Presents Research on How Students Learn at Different Rates
5. Award-winning Research at WPI Shows Intelligent Computer Tools Can Improve Education
6. Telegram & Gazette Spotlights WPI Research on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
7. Massachusetts Association of School Committees Honors Intelligent Tutoring System Developed at WPI
8. WPI Receives $1.5 Million NSF Award to Develop Intelligent Tutoring System for Improved Science Education
9. WPI Receives $2 Million Award to Develop an Intelligent Tutoring System That Can Improve Math Education

This page was created by Cristina Heffernan (2011).