Case Study: Scholastic Corporation achieves improved reading outcomes and NCLB compliance with MySQL

Scholastic Relies on MySQL to Help Schools Raise Reading Achievement and Comply with the No Child Left Behind Act

Scholastic, the world’s largest children’s book publisher and a leader in educational technology, needed a scalable, reliable way to power products like READ 180, Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) and ReadAbout to help schools meet No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. Earlier classroom-level tools relied on an unreliable flat-file database that couldn’t handle thousands of students or produce the actionable data districts required for Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) reporting.

Scholastic embedded MySQL in its Scholastic Achievement Manager (SAM) to deliver a high-performance, cross-platform relational back end that supports hundreds of concurrent users and up to 700 students per server. The solution enabled real-time student assessment and hundreds of AYP reports, reduced total cost of ownership by consolidating servers, lowered administration needs, and freed funds for R&D while making the product easier to deploy and sell.

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