With the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, a decade of state legislation to assure school accountability for student performance was placed in a framework of federal law.

NCLB accelerated demand for products and services that help educators teach better, yield higher levels of individual student performance, and assure that schools and districts meet accountability requirements. These school improvement programs include professional development, curriculum, instructional assistance, information management and analysis technologies, as well as program assessment, management support and consulting services. Their common theme is changing the core teaching and learning functions of public education.

Stakeholders in this market include:

• Administrators who purchase these programs

• Teachers who use them

• Firms and nonprofits engaged in program development, marketing, sales and implemention

• Education policy researchers and program evaluators

• Government policymakers and officials engaged in the regulation and oversight of public schools

• Investors in this market, and many more considering investment.

The decisions and actions of each group add to a pool of important market information. Every stakeholder needs to draw from the pool. But the information each group requires to do its jobs well is both overwhelming and hard to find. Today's k-12 education media are narrowly focused. The time required to search every publication and website in the pool is prohibitive.

Each week, School Improvement Industry leverages the internet to serve its clients. We:

• Gather information from every corner of the market

• Select what's essential to clients' immediate and long-term decisions

• Put it in a concise form

• Provide the option of going straight to the source

• Keep our opinions on the editorial page

• Offer the opinons of independent columnists in the market

• Deliver on Monday morning

• Offer our services at one attractive price to entire organizations.