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Pearson Education Technologies Announces New Name for its Banner Product: the Concert™ Online Education Community

New Orders in States Nationwide Confirm School Districts are Embracing the Vision

Mesa, AZ - November 13, 2002 - Pearson Education Technologies (formerly NCS Learn) today announced a new name for the industry’s first all-inclusive family of integrated Web-based applications for the K-12 education community: Concert™. In addition, Pearson Education Technologies announced that seven school districts have ordered licenses to the Concert online education community.

Formerly known as the NCS4School™ solution, the Concert online education community will bring students, parents, teachers, and administrators together to harmonize their efforts for maximum student achievement. Building on the leadership position of Pearson Education Technologies’ wide-ranging products, the Concert solution will combine standards-aligned instruction, lesson planning, assessment, educational content, and business office management applications into one seamlessly integrated online solution to maximize performance across the education enterprise.

“The Concert online education community is the culmination of over 40 years of solutions built around the way K-12 educators teach, communicate, and use technology,” said Mike Morache, president of Pearson Education Technologies. “Education is, in many ways, like a musical performance. As individual instrumental sounds blend together to produce music, individuals involved in the education process — students, parents, teachers, and administrators — collaborate to create real, genuine learning. The Concert online education community brings together all the participants in a child’s education and provides a place where each can participate and harmoniously facilitate that learning on a daily basis.”

New Orders

Union Public Schools

Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla. is the first school district in the country to license Concert Instruction & Assessment. The preK-12 school district encompasses 16 schools and serves more than 13,500 students in southeast Tulsa and northwest Broken Arrow, Okla. Prior to district-wide implementation, the Instruction & Assessment component of the Concert solution will be rolled out in three Union schools: Marshall T. Moore Elementary School, Roy Clark Elementary School, and the Union Eighth Grade Center. (For more information, please see the related news release, “Union Public Schools in Tulsa, Okla. Secures License to Concert™.”)

Perry Public Schools

Most recently, Perry Public Schools in Perry, Ohio ordered a license to the Instruction & Assessment component of the Concert online education community to help implement core strategies in the district’s new five-year strategic plan, which addresses the No Child Left Behind Act.

A rural K-12 district, Perry Public Schools comprises three schools and serves approximately 2,000 students. The district plans to introduce the Concert online education community to selected classes and grade levels in each of its three schools, in preparation for a district-wide rollout.

Districts in five other states — Kansas, Idaho, California, New Jersey, and Maine — have also ordered licenses for the Concert Instruction & Assessment product, with implementations scheduled to begin next year.

About Pearson Education Technologies

With more than 40 years of experience in developing, delivering, and supporting curriculum, assessment, and enterprise data management products, Pearson Education Technologies is the leader in offering comprehensive solutions for preK-12 education. Reaching more than 10 million students annually, our products include the SASIxp™ student information system, SuccessMaker® Enterprise and NovaNET® comprehensive courseware systems, and Concert™ Instruction & Assessment, the online education community. Pearson Education Technologies is part of Pearson Education (NYSE: PSO), the world's leading integrated education company.

For more information about Pearson Education Technologies, call 1.877.EdTech1.