Curriculum Advantage Releases Classworks State Edition for Maryland.

Business Editors/Education Writers

BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004

Curriculum Advantage, Inc. announced today the release of a new Maryland State Edition of Classworks -- a network-based system of K-12 language arts and mathematics curriculum and learning tools created from 180 different software products. This Maryland edition is aligned to the Maryland Content Standards and provides teachers with a supplementary resource to help better prepare their students for Maryland's high-stakes assessments.

Classworks (www.curriculumadvantage.com) includes 8,600 learning activities from dozens of favorite educational software programs, all of which are correlated with National Education Standards in math and language arts and which are now specifically correlated to the state curriculum for Maryland. Classworks is 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. This alignment ensures that Classworks is an effective curriculum and remediation resource to address guidelines of the Reading First Initiative and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Classworks is proven to improve student academic achievement and help schools prove that adequate yearly progress is being made, measured and reported per the requirements of NCLB.

Curriculum Advantage has received recognition from education leadership organizations which applaud the company's commitment to developing state editions, correlated with state standards. In September 2003, the Florida School Boards Association selected Classworks as one of the premier curriculum resource and remediation tools of choice for the Florida elementary and middle schools. The Georgia Association of Educational Leaders, the Illinois Association of School Administrators and the Texas Association of School Administrators have also recognized Classworks as an effective curriculum resource for their state's schools. The Classworks State Editions of five states: Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania, include an additional Classworks import utility that uses state assessment data to prescribe individualized learning paths. Classworks is the only curriculum resource of its kind that seamlessly imports state assessment data in this way and then uses the data to help students improve their performance on subsequent tests.

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.