Lightspan and eSCORE.com Partner to Offer Leading Educational Services to one of the Web's Largest Community of Parents and Teachers

New York (May 1, 2000) – Lightspan.com, a leading K-12 educational portal site for parents, students and teachers, today announced that it signed a content partnership with eSCORE.com, the Web's first customized educational services site for parents and their kids, newborn to age 18. This partnership will enable Lightspan to offer select eSCORE.com assessments on its Parent and Teacher channels. Visitors to Lightspan will be able to complete online skill evaluations and receive immediate, customized feedback on skill mastery, with recommended actions that parents can take to enrich their child's education.

Lightspan will also offer eSCORE.com's popular "Need to Know" educational content and "SMARTicles," age-specific articles on a range of topical issues, on its Parents and Teacher channels, increasing the reach of eSCORE.com's educational services and expertise. "We're excited to offer eSCORE.com's online assessments, enabling our members to get an immediate, individualized roadmap for enriching their child's unique learning process," said Winnie Wechsler, executive vice president and general manager of Internet and broadband services at Lightspan. "eSCORE.com's ability to customize educational services and information for parents and kids really enhances the range of resources already available at Lightspan's portal."

"Our relationship with Lightspan brings eSCORE.com's customized resources together with one of the Internet's largest online communities of K-12 parents, teachers and students," said Robert Waldron, chief executive officer of SCORE! Learning, Inc., eSCORE.com's parent company. "This is a tremendous opportunity to let more parents know about eSCORE.com's innovative, Internet-based learning services, and to inform teachers about eSCORE.com assessment tools that can add value in the classroom and help them to empower parents as partners in the educational process."

Launched in February, Lightspan.com is the first Web portal in the education market that provides quality access to education content on the Internet and that bridges the classroom and home learning environments.

eSCORE.com identifies and evaluates a child's particular learning needs and interests using a combination of brief assessments and questionnaires, along with direct input from parents. eSCORE.com education specialists partner with parents, recommending activities, services, and products to address the learning needs of their child. Users can also access highly interactive services such as one-to-one consultations with learning specialists; state test resources; child development workshops; and content developed with educational organizations such as Harvard Project Zero. eSCORE.com will launch online tutoring later this year.

About SCORE! Learning, Inc.
SCORE! Learning, Inc., a subsidiary of Kaplan/The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO), is a leading provider of educational programs and resources for families. In addition to eSCORE.com, its units include SCORE! after-school education centers, where students in grades K-10 use a proven multimedia curriculum to build academic skills, confidence and a love of learning; and SCORE! Prep, which serves middle and high school students with at-home, one-on-one tutoring for academic subjects and standardized tests.

About Lightspan, Inc.
Lightspan, Inc. provides curriculum-based educational software and Internet products and services used both in school and at home. Lightspan's technology, delivery systems and content help increase student interest in learning, parental involvement in their children's education, and productive interaction among teachers, parents, and students. Lightspan's products include Lightspan Achieve Now, an interactive curriculum program for K-8 students, curriculum programs for college students offered through Lightspan's higher education group, Academic Systems, and an integrated family of Internet products and services offered through Lightspan's Web site, Lightspan.com.

Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical are "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty, are predictions only and actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to differences include volatility of the Company's expenses and operating results, market acceptance of the Company's curriculum-based software and Internet products, management of growth, risks associated with expanding the Company's Internet business, changes in funding for public schools, technological advances and risks related thereto, and risks associated with the Company's rapid growth. These factors and others are more fully described under "Risk Factors" in the Final Prospectus included in The Lightspan Partnership's Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-90103) as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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