Press Release - February 8, 2006

Hawaii Standards Added to Vantage Learning's MY Access!™ Instructional Writing Program

All MY Access! writing prompts aligned with state writing standards to guide teacher instructional use

Honolulu, HI, February 8, 2006 - Vantage Learning (www.VantageLearning.com), the world's leading provider of online assessment tools, announced that the Hawaii standards have been added to their award-winning MY Access! program, providing immediate opportunities for teachers to select writing prompts for students to use, helping them achieve proficiency levels in writing. The announcement was made during the 9th Annual Technology in Education Conference, this year entitled Educational Empowerment Through Technology E-School Conference.

MY Access! is an online, portfolio-based writing instructional program that allows students and teachers to track student writing progress over time. Using MY Access!, students can write, review, and revise their work, as well as receive diagnostic feedback on critical writing dimensions, from organization to mechanics. Teachers can then review students' work and provide additional feedback.

"Hawaii schools are experiencing the excitement and promise of this writing tool to help students achieve proficiency levels," says Harry Barfoot, VP of Marketing for Vantage Learning. "By adding the Hawaii writing standards, teachers can search for and select prompts by theme, level, basal reading textbook, and now by specific Hawaii writing standards. Teachers and administrators see the value of MY Access! for pre- and post-testing, adding district benchmark writing assessments, aligning prompts to core reading programs, and leveraging their investments for a total solution to their writing needs. It is being viewed as a fully integrated, high-valued solution, and we're delighted that we can serve so many educators with different needs."

Version 6.0 of MY Access! builds on the continued approach taken by Vantage Learning to allow more customized features, align with individual state standards, and tailor the teaching and learning environments to students' specific needs. Administrators can review student writing in a new reporting engine that enables drilling down into weak and strong skills by domain.

MY Access! is based on Vantage Learning's owned and developed proprietary IntelliMetric® engine, which uses a rich blend of artificial intelligence and expert knowledge to accurately assess students' competency and progress, in subjects ranging from reading and writing, to science, to social studies. Selected by ACT, The College Board, and the GMAT for essay-scoring, IntelliMetric has become the gold standard for accuracy and quality of essay scoring by differentiating the way writing is reviewed within the software.

About MY Access!

MY Access! is a web-based assessment and diagnostic writing environment that scores student essays instantly and provides individualized instruction that engages and motivates students to improve their writing proficiency. The robust online reporting feature provides up-to-the-minute student performance data, enabling teachers to make timely, data-driven decisions for successful differentiated instruction. MY Access! analyzes more than 400 semantic, syntactic and discourse characteristics and provides a holistic score as well as domain scores for five major areas: focus and meaning, organization, content and development, language use and style, and mechanics and conventions.

About Vantage Learning

Vantage Learning (www.VantageLearning.com), an affiliate of Vantage Laboratories and the leading provider of online assessment and automated essay scoring, developed IntelliMetric® to meet the needs of business, education, and government agencies needing a comprehensive Internet-based test authoring, delivery, scoring and reporting platform. IntelliMetric administers and scores responses to open-ended questions over the Internet using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. An individual can enter a response to a question posed, submit the response, and receive an immediate score with feedback within seconds.

Eduventures has selected Vantage Learning as one of the eight most innovative educational technology companies. MY Access!, Vantage's instructional writing program that utilizes IntelliMetric essay-scoring, earned a 2003 District Administration Top 100 Award and was included in Technology and Learning Magazine's Top 10 Smart Technologies for Schools. A Codie Awards finalist three years in a row, MY Access! recently won the 2005 Codie Award in two categories, "Best Secondary Education Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English" and "Best Instructional Solution for English Language Learners". In addition, MY Access! was awarded the 2004 Award of Excellence from Technology and Learning Magazine.

Vantage Learning provides services in all 50 states directly to end-user clients and provides services to educational leaders such as The College Board, ACT, Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB/McGraw Hill and Thomson Learning.