I am conducting an evaluation of K-12 instructional data management
systems and would like to gather detailed product information on the
companies listed below. Many educational organizations (school
districts, state education depts?) are conducting this sort of
evaluation and will be the obvious sources of the information that I
seek. Their analysis ? feature by feature comparisons, etc, along with
responses from the listed companies to RFP?s posted by various
educational agencies will be useful.

Ultimately I hope to create a feature by feature comparison matrix of
all of the products in my list. Categories that I am particularly
interested include data access and reporting, assessment services,
data management, instructional tools, professional services offered,
and standards used.

1. Harcourt, Stanford Learning First
2. Houghton Mifflin, Edusoft
3. Schoolnet, IMS - Instructional Management System
4. Kaplan, Achievement Planner
5. McGraw-Hill, Yearly Progress Pro
6. Pearson, Progress Assessment Series
7. PLATO/Lightspan, Teaching and Learning Enterprise
8. Renaissance Learning, Renaissance Place
9. STI, STI Assessment
10. ATI, Galileo K-12 Online
11. Compass Learning, Odyssey
12. Desire2Learn, Leaning Platform
13. Edmin, INFORM
14. NWEA, Measures of Academic Progress
15. Scholastic, Scholastic Reading Inventory
16. Vantage Learning, Learning Access
17. ETS/Pulliam, IDMS