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AEP announces finalists for prestigious Golden Lamp Awards

Winners to be announced at annual Awards Banquet & Gala in June

LOGAN TWP., NJ--APRIL 20, 2006--The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) today announced the sixteen finalists for its 2006 Golden Lamp Awards, the most celebrated arm of its annual awards competition. Winners will be announced June 9 at the annual AEP Awards Banquet & Gala, held at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.
     For nearly three decades, the AEP Awards have recognized significant and excellent achievement in supplemental educational products and education marketing. Selected by a panel of educators and industry experts, AEP Award winners earn the right to display the Lamp of Learning logo, nationally recognized by educators and administrators as a mark of outstanding quality and achievement.
     “Each year, the competition for the Golden Lamp gets tougher because the quality of the products continues to rise,” said Charlene Gaynor, AEP’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s finalists enliven critical subjects such as reading, math, science, and music with fresh multimedia approaches.”
     Golden Lamp winners are defined by their superior use of content, design and fulfillment of a product’s educational mission; simply put, they are considered the “best of the best” in educational publishing. The finalists for this year’s awards are:

Instructional Materials:
• Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library- Scholastic Education
• Text Talk: Robust Vocabulary Instruction- Scholastic Education
• ORBIT Write Tools- Learning Media Limited
• ABC Music & Me Starter Set- Kindermusik International

Periodicals:
• Teaching Tolerance- Southern Poverty Law Center
• National Geographic Kids- National Geographic Society
• Edutopia Magazine- George Lucas Educational Foundation and Edutopia Magazine
• New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams- New Moon Publishing

Books:
• Vherses: A Celebration of Outstanding Women- The Creative Company
• Vocabulary Accelerator- Defined Mind, Inc.
• Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• The Human Odyssey: Modern World- K12, Inc.

Technology:
• ExploreLearning- ExploreLearning.com, a Division of ProQuest
• E-Blocks- Positivo Informática
• unitedstreaming- Discovery Education
• AOL Writing Wizard- America Online, Inc.

     The AEP Awards Program also includes the Distinguished Achievement Awards, the AOL@SCHOOL Technology Leadership Award, and the Beacon Awards for outstanding education marketing. For a complete list of award finalists, visit http://www.AEPweb.org/awards/winners. For information on how to attend the AEP Awards Banquet & Gala, please contact AEP Programs Manager Doug Ferguson at 856-241-7772 or dferguson@AEPweb.org.

About AEP
AEP, a national, nonprofit organization, represents, supports and promotes the publishers of supplemental educational resources, key tools for reading and learning at school and at home. Its membership includes the giants of the supplemental education industry, and spans the gamut from magazines to television channels, books to interactive computer software and CDs. Please visit www.AEPweb.org for more information.

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