In addition, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), signed into Law by President Bush in January 2002, has ambitious goals: ending the achievement gap between rich and poor and white and minority students and improve the academic performance of all students by 2014.

This is because by 2005, the average results were truly disturbing: more than 85% of African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans are not proficient in reading in the 4th grade, according to data from NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress). The average were similar in mathematics with 90% of African and Hispanic American students not proficient in the 4th grade.

The trend of low expectations compounds as students are passed along to the next grade level. By 12th grade, only 3% of African Americans are proficient in mathematics, only 4% of Hispanics, 10% of Native Americans, 20% of Whites and 34% of Asian Americans. Few students have competence in science or mathematics. The NCLB act assures that nobody will choose who succeeds. The People of United States must ensure that all students are expected to learn in schools.

i-Education Holdings S.A.., (i-Ed) is a successful Chilean company oriented to educational technology industry in Latin America. i-Ed developed MiClase, a powerful digital learning tool that delivers attractive and educational effective multimedia content to classrooms and computer labs all over the country. Through MiClase teachers and students have access to thousands of curriculum based video-clips, software activities, enriched animations and Internet links. By incorporating this powerful and engaging tool into the classroom, teachers have the ability to enrich the learning experience of their student for better scores.

MiClase delivers its content from a Classmart (own property technology internet appliance) that is connected to LAN of schools. This Classmart contains more than 25.000 of digital resources in Spanish and works as a streaming server, web, cache and hard disk. The materials inside the Classmart are updated every night automatically from i-Ed central servers. Teachers can access to MiClase from everywhere just with an internet connection, its login and password and create or select a multimedia battery of resources to enriched its next classes. From its offices in Peru and Chile, i-Ed has been able to empower teachers and students in Chile and Peru to improve their scores using cutting edge technologies in their learning process.

Among the most important goals i-Ed has reached during its six years of working, is the fact that the 100% of their schools users increased their scores in the last national evaluation program of the Chilean educational system (SIMCE, Sistema de Medición de la Calidad de la Educación) in maths (http://www.simce.cl/paginas/prueba_aplicada_2005.htm). Very important educational leaders of the community are in position to agree that due to MiClase used their municipal schools could break the bad results, increasing substantially their performance at classrooms (www.i-educationholdings.com/testimonios).

These results demonstrate the underlying hypothesis about the introduction of multimedia technologies into the classroom, which indicates that IT empowers teacher to create a motivating environment for students to improve their learning results.

Other outstanding accomplishments that the company has reached are:

• The only one private company invited to present its results in the 2004 APEC Education Ministries Meeting in representation of Chilean Ministry of Education.

• The former Chilean President Mr. Ricardo Lagos expressed that MiClase guarantees the access of thousand of Chilean students to valuable learning digital materials empowering teachers to fight against the digital gap between wealthy and not wealthy kids.

• The only one private company selected by IDB financed Programa Origenes (www.origenes.cl) to install digital labs for educational purposes in 280 rural native Chilean schools alongside Chile. This program included MiClase for maths, notebooks, PC, data projectors and other digital appliances to enrich the learning experienced of this century not taking into account the people's segment.

• The development of strategic alliances with US companies like: United Learning, a Discovery Network educational division, Fairfield Language technologies (Rosetta Stone), Pearson Electronic Education, Intel, among others.

• The only one private company that could achieved successfully educational results with online education for the Chilean Army. This results were developed under the sponsorship of SOFOFA (Sociedad de Fomento Fabril) the Chilean Federation of the Industry (www.sofofa.cl/Sofofa/index.aspx?channel=3597)

• More than 400 schools “MiClase inside” in Chile.

• Member of ACTI (Asociación Chilena de Empresas de Tecnología) Chilean IT Association, Educational Technology Board.

• Invited by Peruvian Minister of Education to coordinate with IT to schools Program: Programa Huascaran, the frame work for a Pilot Program.

Finally, the great success obtained with MiClase, was significant for the launching of new related services: “MiClase English Learning” in association with a Virginian Educational Technology company: Fairfield Language Technology (Rosetta Stone), Educational Technology Consultancy services and the production of highly sophisticated multimedia content on demand.

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