McGraw-Hill Education Announces Two New Cutting-Edge, Digital-Based Solutions Supported...

McGraw-Hill Education Announces Two New Cutting-Edge, Digital-Based Solutions
Supported by Five Technology Partnerships

First-ever all digital K-6 math curriculum offers unprecedented level of
technology interactivity between curricula and whiteboards

New assessment software adds first-ever integration of progress monitoring
with student response devices

WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McGraw-Hill Education today
announced two new digital-based products and five new partnerships that expand
and enhance the company's successful line of digital education solutions that
drive student achievement and speed the development of 21st Century skills.
The new products are CINCH Mathematics, the first K-6 teacher-led, digital
math program of its kind, and Acuity UnWired(TM), the first-ever integration
of formative assessment with student response devices. The partnerships with
five of today's leading technology providers -- eInstruction(TM), eScholar(R),
Promethean, Qwizdom(R) and Renzulli Learning(TM) -- support both new products
and also significantly enhance some of McGraw-Hill Education's existing
digital solutions.

Presented at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) 2009 in
Washington, D.C., from June 28 through July 1, the digital solutions represent
several firsts in the integration of technology and classroom resources. They
are based on an instructional strategy that engages students by allowing them
to learn using the technologies that they love to use at home, while providing
teachers with extensive data that can be used to improve student performance.
This innovative approach reflects McGraw-Hill Education's continued commitment
to leading the way in the development of digital-based instruction as part of
its New Education Imperative initiative.

McGraw-Hill Companies' Chairman, President and CEO Harold W. McGraw III
launched the initiative with the announcement of the McGraw-Hill Center for
Digital Innovation on June 16, 2009 at the Detroit Economic Club's National
Summit. The Center is a first-of-its-kind research and development center
focused on bringing the same digital environment that today's students have
embraced outside of school to elementary and secondary classrooms.

"Using these technologies builds on our success in providing digital solutions
that enhance instruction and will further empower teachers to engage young
digital natives in the classroom," said William Oldsey, executive vice
president, McGraw-Hill Education. "The technologies also collect the data that
teachers need to individualize instruction and drive student achievement.
This, in turn, helps us to develop students who will be competitive as
learners and achievers in a global economy that demands 21st Century skills."

CINCH Mathematics uses interactive whiteboard technology and student response
devices from Promethean. Developed by the McGraw-Hill Education Center for
Digital Innovation, CINCH Mathematics helps teachers plan, teach, assess and
differentiate instruction through one powerful online tool. Students learn
math concepts and acquire skills through motivating, teacher-led, interactive
whiteboard classroom instruction. The student-response devices engage today's
digital natives and encourage even the quietest students to participate in
lessons. The program collects each student's answers so teachers can use them
to individualize instruction.

CTB/McGraw-Hill'sAcuity UnWired(TM) enables students to take Acuity
InFormative Assessments(TM) using student response devices, or "clickers"
provided by Qwizdom(R) and eInstruction(TM). Teachers can immediately act on
assessment responses and generate standards-aligned Acuity reports within
minutes. The instantaneous feedback provided by Acuity UnWired gives educators
the ability to make data-driven instructional decisions without delay,
providing students with targeted instruction in real time. Acuity is the
winner of a 2009 CODiE award for Best Student Assessment Solution. Acuity
UnWired has already been demonstrated in school district pilot projects in
five states with universally successful results.

Lastly, The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill'sParent Network and Online Reporting
Solutions are even more robust than before thanks to two partnerships. By
combining Renzulli Learning's(TM) more than 35,000 online differentiated
instructional resources with the Grow Network's district and state-level data,
educators have a "whole child" profile that aligns solutions with individual
students. Renzulli Learning(TM) is a University of Connecticut Research &
Development Corporation Company. In addition, a partnership with eScholar
Complete Data Warehouse(R) for PreK-12 allows Grow to present a full history
of classroom, formative and summative results on a single report.

"At McGraw-Hill Education, we strive to remain the premier education partner
for school districts," said William Oldsey, executive vice president of
McGraw-Hill Education. "We are listening to our customers by creating
comprehensive, solutions-focused programs to improve student and teacher
achievement. These comprehensive solutions address the need for dynamic
learning systems that allow instant assessment of the proficiency levels of
each student. Teachers can use this actionable data to differentiate their
instruction based on the needs of the individual students."

About McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is a leading
global provider of print and digital instructional, assessment and reference
solutions that empower professionals and students of all ages. CTB/McGraw-Hill
(CTB.com), the nation's leading publisher of standardized and standards-based
achievement tests for PreK-adult, offers a broad range of assessments,
software and services. The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill (http://info.grow.net),
the nationally recognized leader in individualized instruction and educational
assessment reporting, offers dynamic reports and differentiated learning
tools, online and in print, for families, teachers, and educational leaders.
The Center for Digital Innovation (MHCDI.com) combines 100 years of curricula
development with the latest technology to create fully digital PreK-12
learning solutions that help drive student achievement and accelerate the
development of 21st Century skills by bringing to the classroom the same
digital environment that today's young people have embraced outside of school.

McGraw-Hill Education has offices in 33 countries and publishes in more than
65 languages. Additional information is available at MHEducation.com.

SOURCE McGraw-Hill Education

Tom Stanton, McGraw-Hill Education, +1-212-904-3214,
Tom_Stanton@McGraw-Hill.com; or Melina Metzger, Paul Werth Associates,
+1-614-224-8114 Ext. 236, mmetzger@paulwerth.com