NEW STANDARDS ENGINE WITHIN SUNBURST'S QUICKMIND.NET
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT PROVIDES THE HIGHEST STANDARDS
ALIGNMENT POSSIBLE FOR ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES

Teachers who use QuickMind.net can easily correlate their lessons to state standards
and prove to administrators that their lessons are correlated

ORLANDO, March 22, 2006 - At the annual Florida Educational Technology Conference today Sunburst Technology announced that its QuickMind.net online learning environment has a powerful new standards engine that adds great value to the product for teachers and administrators. The standards engine provides up-to-date standards for all 50 states in the U.S. and aligns the lowest level benchmark for each state to every activity and resource in QuickMind.net. It provides the highest level of standard alignment possible, which now makes QuickMind.net eligible for many types of federal funding, such as Title I (disadvantaged students), Title II (teacher training), Title III (ESL/ELL), Title IV (21st Century Schools), Title V (promoting informed parental choice and innovative programs), Reading First, IDEA and PT3.

The award-winning QuickMind.net is a powerful intervention tool that offers educators in grades K to 12 a wealth of content from Sunburst's library of classic titles, as well as over 20,000 organized and easy to use online resources to enrich their classes. These include language arts, math, science and social studies curricula. QuickMind.net provides educators and students in grades K-12 with extensive lesson-planning, homework and assessment resources at school, home or anywhere that they have an Internet connection.

QuickMind.net makes it easy for teachers to correlate their lessons to state standards by offering two different ways to display standards -- standards to resources, as well as resources to standards. For example, teachers can browse their state's standards, choose one by clicking on it, and then see a list of all the resources within QuickMind.net that address that specific standard. Or they can check to see which standards a specific resource in QuickMind.net addresses as they are selecting resources by clicking on it and viewing a list of standards. The product also allows teachers to create their own alignments for content and share those alignments with their district. With the standards readily on-hand and aligned to each and every resource, teachers can also show curriculum directors and administrators correlations for their classroom lessons that use these resources. They can be viewed and printed as needed.

"No other product out there has QuickMind.net's level of alignment functionality," said David Wolff, Sunburst Technology Senior Vice President. "Our new standards engine will save teachers hours of time by having their own state's standards at their fingertips and already aligned to all of the resources within QuickMind.net. It also provides the solid accountability they need for administrators."

Sunburst will continue correlating all future QuickMind.net content to state standards. Its content enhancements to QuickMind.net are ongoing and most recently include the addition of Math Pathways, a multimedia mathematics curriculum for grades 6 to 12, and Geography Challenge, a comprehensive, worldwide K-12 geography program.

QuickMind.net provides 24-hour access to standards-based curriculum, interactive homework assignments, project templates, tools, lesson plans, reference materials and online professional development via a password-protected Web site. It is one of a select assortment of intervention solutions available through Sunburst Technology's new "Sunburst Learning Solutions" educational consulting program, dedicated to providing schools with student achievement solutions for differentiated instruction. Sunburst Learning Solutions focuses on student improvement in grades K-12 using sound, leading-edge technology platforms developed for targeted intervention. Building upon Sunburst's 30-year history of supporting teachers and delivering educational products that promote student achievement, Sunburst Learning Solutions provides schools with solutions that meet "No Child Left Behind" Legislation requirements and that can be customized to each school's individual challenges. It offers customizable, research-based achievement solutions for schools, leveraging the best standards-based products.

Sunburst partnered with Six Things, Inc., the education industry leader in curriculum alignment, to deliver the most reliable and best quality of state standard alignments to the QuickMind.net curriculum. Curriculum experts at Six Things, based in Oklahoma City, completed the actual standard alignments.

Pricing & Availability
QuickMind.net is available as annual subscription sold exclusively through Educational Resources and the Sunburst Learning Solutions program. The subscription allows teachers, students, parents, and administrators unlimited access to QuickMind.net anytime, anywhere. Pricing for QuickMind.net is customized for schools and districts. The starting price for an annual building subscription with unlimited users is $7,000. Special district pricing is available. For a free demo of the product, or free on-site consultation educators can visit http://www.QuickMind.net or call 888-665-8307 for more information.

Company Background
Sunburst Technology publishes award-winning instructional software and the QuickMind.net online learning environment for the K-12 school market. Proprietary series in the Sunburst lineup include HyperStudio®, Key Skills, Tenth Planet, and Little Planet. Top selling titles include HyperStudio, Type to Learn, Key Skills Series, Hot Dog Stand: The Works, Easy Book Deluxe and A to Zap! The publisher, a company of Thayer Capital Partners, is headquartered in Elgin, IL, with its development center in Valhalla, NY.

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