McGraw-Hill Education Earns Four CODiE Awards And Named A Top Winner For Its Proven Digital Solutions At SIIA's 2012 Ed Tech Industry Summit

NEW YORK, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Education today announced that three of its proven industry-leading digital solutions have won four awards at this year's annual Software and Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 2012 CODiE Awards in educational technology, after being named a finalist across seven product categories in both K-12 and higher education. Announced at the 2012 Ed Tech Industry Summit, these prestigious awards further validate McGraw-Hill Education's position as a leading education innovator in products and services and reaffirm the company's ongoing commitment to providing top digital teaching and learning solutions that increase student performance and enhance instructor effectiveness.

The CODiE Awards - an annual awards program that recognizes excellence in software development in the software industry- hold the distinction of being the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program, which provides winners with a unique opportunity to be recognized and honored by companies they respect and with whom they often compete.

McGraw-Hill School Education won in the following categories:

    --  McGraw-Hill Everyday Mathematics ePlanner Deluxe with ePresentations and
        eToolkit won for Best Educational Use of a Device-Specific Application.
        Everyday Mathematics is an award-winning, research-based, Common Core
        State Standards-aligned curriculum that is used in Pre-K-6 classrooms
        across the United States by more than 4 million children. For teachers,
        the ePlanner simplifies and shortens the process of creating and
        organizing classroom lessons, while ePresentations and eToolkit provide
        interactive whiteboard tools for each lesson to guide classroom
        instruction.
    --  McGraw-Hill Networks is a brand new middle and high school social
        studies learning system that combines engaging print and digital
        resources to help students discover and learn essential social studies
        content. With a library of engaging online resources, the program, which
        can be personalized and customized for each student to support
        differentiated instruction, transforms social studies instruction and
        learning into an exciting and interactive experience through audio,
        video and other collaborative multi-media features. Networks won for
        Best K-12 Course or Learning Management Solution category.

"We are honored and excited that Everyday Math and Networks have been identified by our peers as the industry's leading digital K-12 programs," said Dan Caton, president of McGraw-Hill School Education. "We are delivering programs that engage learners and allow teachers to personalize lessons for students, which we know is the most effective form of instruction. Technology - particularly personalized learning technology - enables students to learn at their own pace, in their own way, using the medium that works best for them, and it allows teachers to focus on what they do best: teach."

McGraw-Hill Higher Education's Tegrity Campus won for Best Postsecondary Enterprise Solution in addition to being named an overall top winner for Best Postsecondary Solution. Tegrity Campus is the only cloud-based, fully automated and searchable lecture capture solution proven to improve student achievement, satisfaction, retention and recruitment across institutions.

"In higher education, the CODiE Awards are the gold standard for digital innovation, and we are very proud that our proven technology and experience have been recognized by our peers," said Brian Kibby, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education. "Not only were we the first company to introduce super-adaptive technology to the market a few years ago, but we are also advancing the industry by partnering with universities in new ways to address their greatest challenges which often include increasing student engagement, retention and achievement. Our customized solutions and services are engaging students in their own education and improving performance across the board."

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About McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education is a content, software and services-based education company that draws on its more than 100 years of educational expertise to offer solutions, which improve learning outcomes around the world. McGraw-Hill is the adaptive education technology leader with the vision for creating a highly personalized learning experience that prepares students of all ages for the world that awaits. The company has offices across North America, India, China, Europe, the Middle East and South America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 65 languages. For additional information, visit http://www.mheducation.com/.

About SIIA

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to 500 leading software and information companies. For further information, visit www.siia.net.

Contact:
Tom Stanton
McGraw-Hill Education
(212) 904-3214
tom_stanton@mcgraw-hill.com

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