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CHICAGO, Ill. (USA), August 28, 2006 -- As students head back to school, innovative U.S. school districts are harnessing cutting-edge predictive analytics software to enhance academic performance and meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. SPSS Inc. (NASDAQ: SPSS), a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software, today reported that school districts in Illinois, Tennessee, Iowa, New York, Alabama, Colorado, Minnesota and Louisiana are now directly deploying this powerful software or will benefit from the technology.

Naperville (Ill.) School District to Use Predictive Analytics to Evaluate Student Test Performance

Naperville School District 203 has selected SPSS predictive analytics software to evaluate student performance on classroom tests, as well as to help design such tests. Results from the assessments will be used to compare and track Naperville students against national testing standards, in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act[1], and help determine how to improve future student performance. This school district is one of the five largest school systems in Illinois, with nearly 19,000 students in 21 schools.

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