Academics' Choice Announces Summer 2015 Award Winners
Aptos, CA (PRWEB) September 01, 2015 -- Academics' Choice today announced the winners of the Summer 2015 Academics' Choice Awards, a prestigious seal of educational quality, reserved only for the best mind-building media and toys. A total of 39 products earned the award this summer. The full list of winners is posted online at http://www.academicschoice.com/2015.
The Academics' Choice Advisory Board consists of leading thinkers and graduates from Princeton, Harvard, George Washington University, and other reputable educational institutions. Product-appropriate volunteer reviewers, combined with the brainpower of the Board, determine the coveted winners. Entries are judged by category (i.e. mobile app, toy, book, website, magazine, etc.), subject area, and grade level, and evaluated based on standardized criteria rooted in constructivist learning theory.
"Academics’ Choice has a reputation for helping educators find resources created for the way that teachers actually teach, and we’re proud that Total Motivation Math and ELA have earned a place among the best classroom resources." - Robert Bush, CEO of Mentoring Minds
"Voxy's mission is to change the way the world learns English by offering an effective, engaging product grounded in empirically-established best practices for language learning. We are thrilled to have won an Academics' Choice Award, which offers an exceptional endorsement of our innovative methodological approach." - Dr. Katie Nielson, Voxy Chief Education Officer
"We are excited that our kit, Teach My Baby received the Academic's Choice Brain Toy Award. The award will help differentiate our product from the competition and the award lends credibility, ensuring parents are purchasing an educational toy with true value." - Christy Cook, CEO, Teach My
The products that are not chosen by the Academics' Choice Awards team (and many that are chosen) are donated to a variety of worthy charities.
About Academics' Choice:
Academics' Choice helps consumers find exceptional brain-boosting material. Academics' Choice is the only international awards program designed to bring increased recognition to publishers, manufacturers, independent authors and developers that aim to stimulate cognitive development. A volunteer panel of product-appropriate judges, including parents, educators, scientists, artists, doctors, nurses, librarians, students and children, evaluate submissions based on educational benefits such as higher-order thinking skills, character building, creative play, durability and originality. Only the genuine "mind-builders" are recognized with the coveted Academics' Choice Awards.
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Stephanie Howard
Marketing Coordinator | Academics' Choice Awards
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Stephanie Howard, Academics' Choice, http://www.academicschoice.com, +1 (888) 392-6643, [email protected]
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