ETS Partners With Educere to Market ETS PATHWISE Online Professional Development Courses.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- ETS announced today a partnership with Educere to market and sell ETS PATHWISE(R) Online professional development courses.

"ETS's relationship with Educere, a respected provider of distance education services, provides us with a larger audience for the ETS

PATHWISE Online courses," says Deloris Flint, executive director, Product Development for ETS's Elementary & Secondary Education Division. "Together, we can help teachers, mentors and administrators advance their skills and develop new methods for increasing student learning."

The ETS PATHWISE Online courses provide convenient, facilitator-led professional development opportunities for teachers and school leaders on such topics as coaching, fundamentals of classroom assessment, communicating with families, engaging students in learning, and managing student behavior. Educators earn continuing education units and have the option of earning graduate or undergraduate elective college credit through ETS's university partners.

"Increasingly, school administrators have been requesting that Educere provide online educational opportunities for their staff," says James Daily, Educere president. "Educere is proud to provide educators across the country access to the high-quality online professional development programs delivered by ETS PATHWISE Online."

For more information about the ETS PATHWISE Online courses or to register, please call 866-4EDUCERE (866.433.8237), e-mail plc@educere.net, or visit http://www.educere.net/edu/courses/ or www.ets.org/pathwise/courses.html.

About Educere:

Educere (www.educere.net) is a leading distance education services organization. Through its unique relationships with leading universities and other education institutions, Educere provides a single entry point for schools, students, and educators to access over 1,000 distance learning courses at favorable costs. Educere's programs are made available as an option to students and educators through public and private schools, as well as directly to home school and other students.

About ETS:

ETS is a nonprofit institution with the mission to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services for all people worldwide. In serving individuals, educational institutions and government agencies around the world, ETS customizes solutions to meet the need for teacher professional development products and services, classroom and end-of-course assessments, and research-based teaching and learning tools. Founded in 1947, ETS today develops, administers and scores more than 24 million tests annually in more than 180 countries, at over 9,000 locations worldwide. Additional information is available at www.ets.org.