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ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy Receives Prestigious Editor\u2019s Choice Award from Children\u2019s Technology Review<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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January 11, 2011<\/strong> (Glendale, CA)<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0ABCmouse.com<\/a>\u00a0Early Learning Academy<\/em>\u2013a pioneering full online curriculum preschool through kindergarten educational website launched publicly in November 2010\u2014recently received the prestigious Editor\u2019s Choice Award from\u00a0Children\u2019s Technology Review<\/em>\u00a0(CTR), a monthly publication that features the latest products and trends in children\u2019s interactive media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CTR\u2019s review process is designed to broadly measure five factors that generally apply to most children\u2019s 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 \u201csmart\u201d features (like the ability to adapt to a child\u2019s capabilities or to expand in complexity), respecting a child\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CTR Editor Warren Buckleitner wrote in his review<\/strong>, \u201cThis 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.\u201d Buckleitner also noted, \u201cThis type of service is complete enough to supplement an existing school curriculum or provide the backbone of a home-based curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Buckleitner, a former preschool and elementary school teacher, founded CTR in 1993 after spending 10 years at the HighScope Educational Research Foundation. He has been an adviser to\u00a0Consumer Reports<\/em>\u00a0WebWatch as well as a judge for the Association of Educational Publishers\u2019 Golden Lamp awards and has taught at Michigan State, along with New York University\u2019s Interactive Telecommunications Program and the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. In addition to serving as editor of CTR, Buckleitner writes for\u00a0Parents<\/em> magazine and\u00a0Scholastic Parent & Child<\/em>\u00a0magazine, among other publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy<\/em> provides parents and teachers with a safe, engaging online environment where young children can learn their ABC\u2019s using a computer mouse, thus the name, ABCmouse.com. The goal of this new and unique learning experience is to help children build a strong foundation for future academic success by providing engaging educational content that supplements and supports preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten programs in the subject areas of reading, mathematics, social studies, beginning science, art, and music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site\u2019s comprehensive curriculum, developed in collaboration with nationally recognized early childhood education experts, offers a depth and breadth of educational content for early learners never before seen in one location on the web. From ABC\u2019s<\/em> and 123\u2019s<\/em> to Thank You<\/em> and Please<\/em>, ABCmouse.com is \u201cBringing Learning to Life\u00ae\u201d by offering more than 2,000 individual learning activities\u2014online books, games, songs, puzzles, art activities, and printables\u2014contained within more than 350 custom lesson plans spanning six academic levels.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In addition to being available as a subscription service for parents at home, ABCmouse.com\u2019s extensive curriculum is available at no cost to public schools throughout the United States and Canada, where teachers are finding its rich variety of quality learning activities of tremendous value as an additional resource in the classroom. Dr. Rebecca Palacios, an ABCmouse.com curriculum advisor and a pre-k and kindergarten teacher for more than 25 years who was also a Founding Director of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, remarked that..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cABCmouse.com Early Learning Academ<\/em>y is an extensive curriculum resource that helps teachers of young children provide for the academic needs of individual students in their diverse classrooms, and at the same time is a powerful teaching tool that incorporates best practices in early childhood education. It is a resource that I enthusiastically recommend to preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten teachers across America.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

ABCmouse.com recently announced the release of a new collection of highly innovative educational apps for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, with engaging features to enhance early learning. These apps, which introduce three of ABCmouse.com\u2019s new children\u2019s books series beginning with six beautifully illustrated interactive books as well as an interactive zoo environment, are the first of ABCmouse.com\u2019s ongoing series of releases of educational apps for young learners, extending its online curriculum to the mobile platform and providing opportunities for children to learn from ABCmouse.com no matter where they are. Direct links to these apps are provided below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doug Dohring, Founder and CEO of Age of Learning, Inc., which owns and operates ABCmouse.com commented<\/strong>, \u201dWe\u2019re very pleased to receive the\u00a0Children\u2019s Technology Review Editor\u2019s Choice Award<\/em>\u00a0because it recognizes that ABCmouse.com is an extremely rich resource for parents and educators that goes well beyond educational games and interactive children\u2019s books.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal in creating the site has been to develop a complete online supplementary curriculum in which every learning activity is very engaging, fun, and highly educational for young children whether it\u2019s about phonics, word families, counting, colors, shapes, animals, weather, or any of the dozens of other topics in our curriculum. And even though there are already thousands of learning activities at ABCmouse.com, we will continuously be adding more content to keep the site fresh and new for our young learners. It has been and continues to be a major development effort and the CTR review, as well as the very positive feedback we are getting from our members, helps us to know that we\u2019re on the right track.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Dohring further noted<\/strong>, \u201cI would like to acknowledge our many curriculum advisors, including Kim Oliver Burnim, Dr. Rebecca Palacios, Dave Hendry, Dr. John Bollard, Phyllis Baecker, Kevin O\u2019Donnell, and others, for their valuable contributions in making ABCmouse.com the high quality children\u2019s educational resource it is today, capable of earning the site this recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

About ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy<\/em> and Age of Learning, Inc.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy<\/em> is a global education initiative of Age of Learning, Inc., whose goal is to help children build a strong foundation for future academic success by providing a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum to greatly assist early learners to succeed in pre-k, kindergarten, and early elementary school programs. The site is named ABCmouse.com because it\u2019s a place where children can learn important educational basics (often referred to as \u201cthe ABC\u2019s\u201d) through the use of a computer mouse, thus ABCmouse.com. At ABCmouse.com, the computer mouse comes to life as ABC Mouse, who serves as the site ambassador and guide to early learners everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Age of Learning, Inc. has filed multiple patents related to its uniquely designed educational content delivery methods and systems.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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