Connect!(R) Adopted by Ten Additional New England High Schools as a Powerful Student Case Management Tool for Counselors; Streamlines Time Consuming Administrative Tasks to Increase Valuable Counselor-Student Interaction.

BOSTON -- ConnectEdu, a leading provider of technology and services for education planning, today announced ten additional New England area high schools are adopting its Connect!(R) High School Suite. Schools offering Connect! to help guidance counselors involved in the college planning process include: Reading, Hopedale, Maynard, Agawam, Frontier, Greenfield, Bromley Brook, Pomfret School, The Met School, and Hope High School. The Web-based tool helps to reduce administrative tasks while maximizing human interactions to effectively track, monitor and counsel students.

The Connect! High School Suite provides:

--An interactive process for students to begin college planning before meeting with a counselor to facilitate more productive in-person meetings

--A counselor-controlled student management dashboard with full reporting and querying capabilities to track all of the process steps, deadlines and tasks

--A forum for ongoing communication between counselors, students and parents, giving parents a "window" into progress for independent updates

--Integration with all commercial transcript management systems allowing counselors to send encrypted transcripts and track submissions

--Continuous professional development and end-user-support

--Step-by-step, question-by-question financial aid form completion

"We are using Connect! to give students a better college planning process, especially since they are more comfortable with the online medium," said Dot Pearl and Ron Santacroce, Guidance Counselors, Hopedale High School. "Connect! will allow counselors to spend time on the more complex decision making processes rather than being caught up in unnecessary administration. It's also really helpful to have one comprehensive hub for all the information that students, counselors and parents can access to keep up with deadlines."

"Schools are recognizing how useful online tools can be to best determine a student's fit within a specific college environment," said Craig Powell, President of ConnectEdu. "It's rewarding to see school systems adopt this cost-efficient way to democratize the process so that all students--regardless of means--have access to the resources necessary to maximize their education potential, life experience and financial investment."

About ConnectEdu, Inc.

Founded in 2002, ConnectEdu provides Web-based education planning to students and advisers engaged in the preparation, search, application or financial aid process of undergraduate, community college, graduate or adult learner admissions. Named one of the "Hottest Businesses - 2005" by Entrepreneur Magazine, ConnectEdu is dedicated to ensuring that all students and parents have access to the resources necessary to maximize their education potential and financial investment.

For more information, please go to www.ConnectEdu.Net.