Press Release - May 17, 2006

Vantage Learning's MY Access!® Chosen as CODiE Award Winner for 2nd Year in a Row

MY Access! is selected as "Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English-Secondary" at the 2006 Annual CODiE Awards

San Francisco, May 17, 2006 - Vantage Learning (www.VantageLearning.com), the world's leading provider of online assessment tools, announced that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has chosen its MY Access! program as a CODiE Award winner for 2006, the 2nd year in a row for the award-winning instructional writing program. The CODiE Awards showcase the industry's finest products and services, celebrate outstanding achievement and vision, and provide the only peer recognition program of its kind.

MY Access! 6.0 is an online, portfolio-based writing instruction program that allows students and teachers to track student writing progress over time. Using MY Access!, students can write, review, and revise their work, and receive diagnostic feedback on numerous important writing dimensions, from organization to mechanics. Teachers can then review students' work and provide additional feedback.

The "Best Instructional Solution: Language Arts/English-Secondary" recognizes the best school-based education technology solution for language arts and English curriculum or content for students in grades 7-12.

"The 21st Annual CODiE Awards continues our tradition of celebrating the best products in the software and information industry," said Ken Wasch, President of SIIA. "Being a winner among so many fine nominees is a solid achievement. I congratulate all of the companies."

Version 6.0 of MY Access! includes customization features that allow educators to align assessments with individual state standards, and tailor the teaching and learning environments to meet the specific needs of their students. Administrators can review students' essays using a reporting engine that lets them drill down into areas of strengths and weakness by domain, such as organization or mechanics.

"Vantage Learning is thrilled to be named a CODiE Award winner for the second year in a row," said Harry Barfoot, VP of Marketing for Vantage Learning. "Instructional support provided by the software is the primary strength of MY Access!. It's as if each student has a writing coach or tutor looking over his or her shoulder in the classroom, helping to achieve proficiency. And with feedback in languages other than English, MY Access! provides support for all students. We look forward to continuing to deliver the industry's best online writing solutions that are research-based, classroom proven, and set industry standards for scoring accuracy."

MY Access! is based on Vantage Learning's IntelliMetric® scoring 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 and social studies. IntelliMetric has been recognized by industry leaders as the most accurate scoring engine to automatically grade open-ended responses. It is the only essay-scoring engine in the world to have a multiple-judge automated system, providing significantly higher exact and adjacent matches. It is used by organizations such as the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) to grade the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®).

The 21st Annual CODiE Awards Gala was held on May 16, 2006, at the Westin St. Francis in downtown San Francisco, California, during the SIIA 2006 Annual Conference. For more information on the CODiE Awards, please visit http://www.siia.net/CODiEs/2006/winners.asp.

About Vantage Learning

With over 146 million online test transactions last year, Vantage Learning, and affiliate of Vantage Labs, is the world's leading provider of online assessment and automated essay scoring solutions. Recognized as the gold standard for scoring quality, consistency, reliability, and scalability, Vantage Learning's award-winning education tools meet the needs of educators and school administrators, businesses and government agencies that need a comprehensive Internet-based test authoring, delivery, scoring, and reporting platform. Vantage developed IntelliMetric®, which administers and scores responses to open-ended questions over the Internet using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Eduventures selected Vantage Learning as one of the eight most innovative educational technology companies.

Vantage Learning provides services across a broad spectrum of clients. ACT and the Graduate Management Admission Council all utilize Vantage technologies for college readiness and admissions. Oregon, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia leverage the Vantage Learning Platform™ for formative, summative, and computer adaptive assessments that drive instructional programs. Respected publishers like Hampton-Brown offer customized versions to support assessment linked to their proprietary content. School districts such as Los Angeles Unified School District, Red Clay DE, Milwaukee Public Schools, Newark Public Schools, and many other respected districts integrate MY Access! into their core language arts curriculum Learn more at www.VantageLearning.com.