McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting Appoints David Taggart Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting, the nation's leading provider of educational assessment and reporting solutions, today announced that David Taggart has been appointed to a new position of Executive Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting comprises CTB/McGraw-Hill, The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill, and McGraw-Hill Digital Learning.

The new position underscores the company's commitment to meet the growing and evolving needs of educators, students and families in the burgeoning assessment market. In his new role, Mr. Taggart, formerly president of CTB/McGraw-Hill, will use his extensive assessment experience and knowledge to increase growth opportunities for all three business units of McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting.

"We formed McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting last year to focus our efforts on meeting the growing need for educational assessment and reporting solutions in the U.S. and worldwide. With over 20 years experience in the assessment industry, David has a depth of knowledge and perspective that will be critical in establishing strategies to meet the increasing demand for solutions and accelerating the growth of CTB, The Grow Network, and McGraw- Hill Digital Learning," said Henry Hirschberg, president of McGraw-Hill Education.

Mr. Taggart will continue to report to Mostafa Mehrabani, president of McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting. A search for Mr. Taggart's replacement as president of CTB is underway. He will continue in this role until his replacement is named.

CTB/McGraw-Hill is the nation's leading provider of assessment services for the kindergarten-through-12th-grade and adult education markets, serving more than 15 million students in 8,500 school districts in all 50 states. The Grow Network/McGraw-Hill is the leading provider of innovative assessment reporting services for educators, parents and students. McGraw-Hill Digital Learning provides a unique research-based formative assessment solution that enables teachers to assess a student's performance on a regular basis.

McGraw-Hill Assessment & Reporting is part of McGraw-Hill Education, a leading global provider of electronic and print products for the pre-K through 12th grade, higher education and professional markets. McGraw-Hill Education is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's and BusinessWeek. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2003 were $4.8 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mheducation.com/.

SOURCE: McGraw-Hill Education

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