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Global Education Technologies, Inc.and Brookes Publishing Co. form strategic partnership to make assessment and intervention more effective and efficient

April 2, 2008 (Denver, CO) – Global Education Technologies (GET), a market leader in developing state-of-the-art case management solutions for students with special needs, and Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc., highly respected for its leading line of books and assessment and intervention tools for early childhood, announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership that will enable the seamless transfer of data between their two systems – Enrich™ and AEPSi™. This partnership will provide educators with easy access to assessments and data essential to identifying and addressing early childhood learning and developmental issues.

Both GET and Brookes work to provide support and resources for educators struggling to effectively implement a range of programs for eligibility, individualized family service plans or individualized education programs (IFSPS/IEPs), Recognition and Response programs, Response to Intervention (RtI) programs, and accountability reporting. Brookes is the developer of AEPS®, the leading curriculum-based, criterion-referenced tool for children birth to 6 years of age. AEPSi is the highly effective web-based, data-management system for AEPS implementation. Enrich is a data management system designed specifically for teachers and administrators to manage and track a full range of student assessments, probes, and intervention activities. Together, these two systems will offer comprehensive services for educators to provide differentiated instruction and measurable, meaningful outcomes for early childhood students with disabilities and learners at risk.

“Data is at the heart of identifying and addressing developmental and learning delays in children,” said Karen Martin, Co-founder and Executive Vice-President, GET. “Our partnership with Brookes reflects GET’s continued dedication to creating systems that provide educators and administrators with access to the data necessary to making informed decisions about children’s performance and progress.”

“This partnership will provide exciting benefits to early childhood educators, administrators, and to the students they serve,” said Melissa Behm, Executive Vice President, Brookes Publishing. "AEPS was designed to link assessment, goal development, intervention, and evaluation for the purpose of improving outcomes for children. Enrich was designed to make managing and using a variety of assessments and data from different sources more manageable. Now teachers will be able to seamlessly work between AEPSi and Enrich to create a full range of graphical reports that will provide educators with a current, clear picture of a student’s progress with a reduction in paperwork and duplicate data entry.”
 
About Global Education Technologies
Global Education Technologies (GET) is an education technology company launched in April 2001 after identifying a significant market need in the $6 billion education software applications industry.  GET is strategically positioned to be a leader in this market with high quality, proprietary technologies that make up the critical part of the end-to-end solution.  A combination of integrated products, combined with a great platform of revenue, market penetration, and a well-executed sales and marketing plan, creates a significant competitive advantage for GET as well as a formidable barrier to entry for other companies.  The EXCENT product suite currently serves over 375,000 students with special academic and behavioral needs. Over the past 19 years, EXCENT has been implemented in 25 states and is also used worldwide with the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).  Simply stated, GET tools support teachers and administrators with resources that improve teaching, communication, record keeping, and state reporting while improving children’s education.