The American Education Corporation Announces Its Dolphin, Inc., Subsidiary Wins Coveted Award of Excellence.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000 Also Selected as Finalist and Candidate for Major Industry Awards The American Education Corporation (OTC/BB:AEDU AEDU Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit (UK Royal Navy) ) today announced that its Dolphin, Inc., subsidiary, (Dolphin, www.dolphinsoft.com) a full-service educational software and Web site developer for all major educational publishers, established in 1984 and located in Gibbsboro, NJ, has won a coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Award of Excellence at the 49th Chicago Book Clinic Book & Media Awards Show. The Book & Media Awards Show honors excellence in the planning, supervision, and execution of the physical and visual aspects of publishing media. Dolphin's entry, Science Practice and Assessment, took top honors in the Media-CD-ROM category. The software was created for the major educational publisher Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. . The Scott Foresman science software uses an engaging animated game format to enable students to demonstrate and extend their knowledge of science. A variety of different question types are included with extensive audio used to deliver questions and provide feedback. The audio as well as the interface (buttons, text prompts, etc.) are available in both English and Spanish by student selection. The software provides class and student grade performance reporting capabilities. Dolphin also was recently notified that two of its other software products have been selected as Finalists and candidates for top honors in the 2001 Codie Awards Competition, the principal awards competition for the software publishing industry. Dolphin won Finalist status in the Best Education Special Needs Product for its Oxford Picture Dictionary A picture dictionary is a dictionary containing word entries that, for all or most such entries, are accompanied by photos or drawings illustrating what the words mean. Picture dictionaries are usually used with young children. interactive software, created for Oxford University Press, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. It also won Finalist status in the Best Online Cross-Media Complement category for its Youthline-USA Web site, created for Youthline USA, Howell, NJ. The American Education Corporation's A+dvanced Learning System(R) family of educational software products provides an integrated suite of grade level 1-12 software for Reading, Mathematics, Language Arts language arts pl.n. The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school. , Science, Writing, History, Government, Economics and Geography publications. In addition, the Company has developed companion academic skill assessment products, A+SSESS!, to provide educators with the means to more effectively target the use of the Company's curriculum content. Spanish language Spanish language, member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages). The official language of Spain and 19 Latin American nations, Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million persons versions are available for Mathematics and Language Arts for grade levels 1-9. The Company's curriculum content is electronically linked and aligned to the World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia, the leading reference encyclopedia for the school market allowing reference content from World Book's rich multimedia curriculum-based reference material to be accessed directly from A+LS lessons. The A+LS comprehensive family of educational software is now in use in over 8,000 schools, centers of adult literacy and correctional institutions Noun 1. correctional institution - a penal institution maintained by the government detention camp, detention home, detention house, house of detention - an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile . The Company's new Java-based technology, A+nyWhere Learning System and A+SSESS! Version 3.0, provides for an updated software version to support the Company's extensive curriculum content and skills assessment tools in a fully managed solution. The new version is designed to run over networks and the Internet, and is scheduled for full release in the Fall of 2000. Note: Certain matters discussed above concerning the future performance of the Company are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. intended to qualify for the safe harbors Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. from liabilities established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified as such by words such as "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects" or words of similar import. The future performance of the Company is subject to a number of factors including, but not limited to, general economic conditions, competitive activity and funding available to schools. |
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