Department of Defense Schools Surge, Assisted By Benchmark Education Company's Benchmark Advance
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading educational publisher Benchmark Education Company (BEC) celebrates the reading achievements of fourth and eighth-grade students in the network of schools run by the U.S. Department of Defense. As detailed in the article, "Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department," published in The New York Times on October 10, 2023, Defense Department schools, attended by the children of U.S. military members and civilian employees, have been showing results rarely seen in public education. This success was fueled partly by a major curriculum overhaul that began in 2015 and includes Benchmark Advance, BEC's core language arts program.