Curriculum Advantage Announces Purchase of OpenBook Anywhere.

LOS ANGELES -- Adds Content for English Language Learners or Emergent Readers to Classworks

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. - publishers of the Classworks language arts and mathematics curriculum -- announced today that it has purchased OpenBook Anywhere and will integrate the OpenBook content into the Classworks curriculum. With this purchase, Curriculum Advantage expands their catalog of remediation resources with content specifically for English as a Second Language students.

"This is a major purchase for our company and a tremendous new addition for Classworks users," said Mr. Lindsey Cook, president and CEO of Curriculum Advantage. "In past months, we have been working with OpenBook to add its content to Classworks and it seemed logical to move forward with purchasing it. Now we can offer OpenBook Anywhere as a part of Classworks and as a stand-alone product that specifically addresses the needs of English language learners and emergent readers."

OpenBook Anywhere is an educational resource of rich, researched-based methodologies to teach English to emergent, remedial and non-English speakers. OpenBook Anywhere activities use a combination of voice, text, video, graphics, and photos, and heritage-language translation within a framework that comprises the most comprehensive, scientifically based, English literacy teaching methodology currently available.

Classworks is successfully being used in schools across the country for remediation in language arts and mathematics education but with OpenBook content, can now be more easily used by teachers with remedial and non-English speaking students. Classworks can help any student on a remediation path to improve their scores on high-stakes tests because it includes internal benchmarking assessments that give teachers an accurate assessment of their understanding of each building-block skill. Classworks can also use imported test data from high-stakes tests to prescribe individualized learning plans.

Both products are recognized reading resources worthy of purchase using Title II, Part D funds as allocated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). OpenBook Anywhere is also a recognized Title III (Limited English Proficiency) Resource under NCLB. Both Classworks and OpenBook Anywhere are also aligned with the five key components of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension, as defined by the National Institute for Literacy and the Partnership for Reading.

Curriculum Advantage is recognized by education leadership organizations which applaud the company's commitment to developing state-specific editions and import editions that have direct relevance in the classroom and give teachers a proactive use of high-stakes test data. In September 2003, the Florida School Boards Association selected Classworks as one of the premier curriculum library and remediation tools of choice for the Florida elementary and middle schools. Additionally, the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders, the Illinois Association of School Administrators, the Texas Association of School Administrators and the Nevada Association of School Administrators have recognized Classworks as an effective curriculum resource for their schools.

About Curriculum Advantage

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (www.curriculumadvantage.com) has offices in Los Angeles; Austin, Texas; and Wayne, Neb. Curriculum Advantage's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools that comprise over 3,000 hours of curriculum. Classworks activities are correlated to national and state learning standards and state tests. They include prescriptive and summative assessment, remediation and reporting tools. Classworks is installed in 2,000 schools in the United States and worldwide. INET Classroom, also from Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based curriculum linked to state and national standards.

About OpenBook Learning, Inc.

Based in Alpharetta, GA, OpenBook Learning, Inc. is a leader in combining multimedia technology with research-based teaching methodologies to teach reading and writing to emergent, remedial and ESL/ELL students. OpenBook Learning's mission is to make every student, regardless of age, an able, enthusiastic reader. OpenBook Learning is committed to developing literacy-training solutions that combine literacy instruction, ESL/ELL instruction, and custom content to provide students of all ages with the necessary skills to read, write and speak English. Our results speak for themselves, with customer's reporting consistent increases of 3-6 grade levels in reading and writing skills within 6 months of use of OpenBook Learning products.