Cambridge, Mass., August 26, 2003 — The many educational materials developed and marketed by Modern Learning Press (MLP) will now be available from Educator's Publishing Service (EPS). EPS is a leading publisher of supplemental reading, language arts, and professional materials for elementary and middle schools and special education.

"We are pleased to add the titles from Modern Learning Press to our offerings," said Nick Gaehde, President of EPS."EPS will provide the same level of service and personalized attention to teachers and administrators that they received from MLP, plus they'll have access to a variety of high-quality materials from the EPS line." Over the past 30 years, MLP has developed and published supplemental education materials for the elementary school market with a focus on reading and language arts. These materials help students with spelling, vocabulary development, and other literacy skills through a number of titles, including Words I Use, which is used in more than 25 percent of K-3 classrooms, Word Power , and My Word Works . In addition to supplemental materials, MLP publishes books that address school readiness, assessment, teaching, and parenting issues.

"MLP is a natural fit with the EPS product and teacher base because everything we do is about success in literacy," said Gaehde. "We are so proud to bring these renowned teaching tools, including professional development books by the late Priscilla Vail, to classrooms throughout America."

MLP materials can be obtained using their existing phone number (800.627.5867) and web site (www.modlearn.com).

EPS (www.epsbooks.com), based in Cambridge, Mass., is a division of Delta Education, LLC, and has been developing literacy materials for differentiated instruction for more than 50 years. Their K-8 reading and language arts materials support the diverse abilities in today's classroom by offering reading, phonics, comprehension, and vocabulary programs for the general classroom, as well as programs designed to support at-risk and struggling readers in specialized settings and inclusion classrooms. EPS has long been a leader in providing materials for dyslexic students and those with other specific learning differences. Their leading products include Explode the Code , Worldly Wise 3000 , Touchphonics, Primary Phonics and S.P.I.R.E.

Delta Education, LLC (www.delta-education.com), a New Hampshire-based company, has been serving educators for more than 30 years by providing the best in K-12 inquiry-based science and math materials and language arts products. Delta Education produces research-based products, including the most widely used elementary school hands-on science program, FOSS ® (Full Option Science System ®), developed under a National Science Foundation grant at the University of California, Berkeley.

Other divisions of Delta include CPO Science (www.cposcience.com), based in Peabody, Mass., a publisher of high-quality, inquiry-based teaching and learning systems for science in grades 6-12, including innovative basal textbook programs that integrate student text, teacher support material, and hands-on equipment.

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