Award-Winning Educator Joins the Board of Directors of iMind.

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CORTE MADERA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000

iMind Education Systems, Inc. today announced that Rudolph F. Crew, Ed.D., one of the nation's foremost educational leaders and activists for educational reform, and currently the Executive Director of the Institute for K-12 Leadership at the University of Washington in Seattle, has joined their Board of Directors.

"We are honored to have Dr. Crew join our Board of Directors," said Mark A. Popp, Chairman and CEO of iMind (TM). "Dr. Crew is a distinguished educator and his insights and experience are invaluable to us as we continue to build a business that serves educators."

Dr. Crew's guiding principle in his works as an educator has always been to provide the means by which all students can achieve high standards. His work to close the student achievement gap - both nationwide and in districts in which he has served - includes the design and implementation of innovative after-school and Saturday programs, mandatory grammar school, literacy campaigns, and an extended school day and school year to enable low-achieving students to catch up with their high-achieving peers.

Previously serving as Chancellor of New York Public Schools, Dr. Crew embarked on a number of leading reforms, including adoption of curriculum standards for all schools, elimination of tenure for principals, and school-based budgeting. He established the Math and Science Institute, an after-school and Saturday program designed to help poor black and Latino students boost their performance.

A native of Poughkeepsie, New York, Dr. Crew holds a Doctor of Education degree in Educational Administration and a Master of Education degree in Urban Education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He earned his B.A. degree in Management from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He has served as an Associate in Education at the Harvard Graduate School in Education, as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Urban Education at California State University in Sacramento California; and as an Adjunct Professor at Lesley College's college outreach program, which is held on campuses across the nation.

Dr. Crew devotes time to service on numerous boards, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; the New York Philharmonic; the Tacoma Art Museum Education Committee in Tacoma, Washington; the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, California; and the Washington Association for Black School Educators. He is a recipient of many awards, including the NAACP Educational Leadership Award, the Arthur Ashe Leadership Award, and the Association of California School Administrators Administrator of the Year Award.

About iMind Education Systems, Inc.

iMind Education Systems, Inc. develops and sells Internet-based education solutions that support student-achievement, teacher-effectiveness, administrative-accountability and parent-involvement. iMind offers the only K-12 technology program that combines community, assessment, management, and planning. iMind is a scalable, standards-based, technology platform that offers a suite of Internet-based applications, iMind Integrator(TM), iMind TutorPro(TM), and iMind Internet Hubs, that are delivered through the iMind Education Server (iES) platform for the enhancement of learning. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Corte Madera, California. For more information, visit www.imind.com.

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