eSCORE.com Forges Partnership with FamilyEducation Network
New York (July 11, 2000) – eSCORE.com, the first online provider of customized educational content and services for parents and kids newborn to age 18, today announced that it has formed a partnership with FamilyEducation Network, Inc. (FEN), the Internet's largest K-12 network for parents, teachers, and students. eSCORE.com will provide grade-specific articles, activities, and tips in the Activity section of familyeducation.com that parents can use to help their children learn in ways that also cultivate a love of learning.
"FamilyEducation Network offers great access to our target audience, enabling us to reach millions of families and educators who are interested in the kind of high value content we provide," said Christopher Strausser, general manager of eSCORE.com and senior vice president of parent company SCORE! Learning, Inc. "eSCORE.com, a pioneer in customized online educational resources, and FamilyEducation Network, a trailblazer in establishing the home-to-school connection, are a great match. Our partnership has tremendous potential."
"We are impressed with how the partnership with eSCORE.com allows our audience to interact with their outstanding educational resources," said Carroll Miller, Co-founder and Vice President of Strategic Relations for FamilyEducation Network. "We are pleased to offer eSCORE.com's fun online learning activities to parents visiting our award-winning parent property, familyeducation.com."
About eSCORE.com and SCORE! Learning, Inc.
eSCORE.com, launched in January 2000, identifies and evaluates a child's particular learning needs and interests, then serves parents with the articles, resources, services and product recommendations they need to become meaningfully involved in their child's education and cultivate a love of learning. Online tutoring for children will launch this fall. eSCORE.com is a unit of SCORE! Learning, Inc., a subsidiary of Kaplan/The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). SCORE! Learning also includes SCORE! Educational Centers, after-school centers where students in grades build academic skills, self-confidence and a love of learning; and SCORE! Prep, which serves middle and high school students with one-to-one, at-home tutoring for academic subjects and standardized tests.
About FamilyEducation Network
Headquartered in Boston, FamilyEducation Network is the Internet's largest and fastest growing K-12 and parent network dedicated to children's learning. In June 2000, the company was acquired by Pearson PLC, the international media company, and it is now part of LearningNetwork.com. The company's mission is to improve the home-to-school connection with a network of websites that includes familyeducation.com, funbrain.com, teachervision.com, myschoolonline.com, and infoplease.com. Founded in 1990, FamilyEducation Network uniquely brings together leading organizations from both the public and private sectors to help parents, teachers, schools, and community organizations use online tools and other media resources to positively effect our children's education and overall development. For more information, call 1-888-881-3472 or visit www.fen.com.
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