ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy receives Prestigious Editor’s Choice Award from Children’s Technology Review

Full Curriculum, Preschool through Kindergarten Educational Website ABCmouse.com Stands Out Among Top Technology Products for Kids in Leading Monthly Publication

January 11, 2011 (Glendale, CA): ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy—a pioneering full online curriculum preschool through kindergarten educational website launched publicly in November 2010—recently received the prestigious Editor’s Choice Award from Children’s Technology Review (CTR), a monthly publication that features the latest products and trends in children’s interactive media.

CTR’s review process is designed to broadly measure five factors that generally apply to most children’s interactive media experiences: ease of use, educational value, entertainment value, design features, and overall value. Global variables strongly influence the ratings in each of these factors, especially “smart” features (like the ability to adapt to a child’s capabilities or to expand in complexity), respecting a child’s time (for example, by making it easy to save work or progress), and so on. On a scale of 1 to 5, ABCmouse.com received 4.5 stars.

CTR Editor Warren Buckleitner wrote in his review, “This solid, subscription-based curriculum for preschool through kindergarten lets children explore a wide variety of content in a structured way. After you play a few levels you quickly can see that teachers played a hand in all aspects of this service.” Buckleitner also noted, “This type of service is complete enough to supplement an existing school curriculum or provide the backbone of a home-based curriculum.”