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About AEP

Welcome to The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP),  the national, nonprofit professional organization for educational publishers.

Vision Statement

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) envisions a thriving educational publishing industry that provides quality materials for every educator and student.

Mission Statement

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) supports the growth of supplemental educational publishing in all media by:

• Promoting supplemental materials in all media as essential learning resources
• Strengthening the educational publishing community through opportunities for collaboration, interaction and communication within the industry and beyond
• Providing research, information and analysis to the industry
• Representing the association’s interests on issues impacting educational publishers, educators and students to state and federal governmental agencies
• Providing quality professional development
• Affording recognition and visibility for members and educational publishing leaders and innovators

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History

The Educational Press Association of America was founded in 1895 by a small group of editors to exchange information and to promote open expression of educational opinion. For more than 100 years, it existed as a university-supported organization, most recently on the campus of Rowan University in Glassboro, N.J.

As technology grew, publishing expanded from print to multimedia. So in 1995, the board decided that the Association should be expanded to reflect the changing publishing industry. Today, the organization, renamed The Association of Educational Publishers, is supported by nearly 400 print and digital publishers of all sizes and in all media.

Now self-sustaining and in headquarters of its own, the Association has expanded its programs to provide information, training, and outreach necessary to the development of quality educational materials. AEP  facilitates communication among key interest groups such as educators, policy makers, educational foundations and associations, business and the education media. AEP continues to increase public awareness of the role of supplemental learning resources in successful teaching and learning.

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Board of Directors

Executive Committee

• Past President: Dan Caton, Executive VP, School Education Group, McGraw-Hill Education
• President: Neal Goff, President, Egremont Associates
• President-elect: Lee Wilson, President & CEO, PCI Education
• Vice President: Greg Worrell, President, Scholastic Classroom and Community Group, Scholastic Inc.
• Treasurer: Randy Wilhelm, CEO, netTrekker
• CEO: Charlene F. Gaynor came to AEP from Learning, a national magazine for elementary teachers, where she was publisher.

Directors

• Julio Abreu, President, A+ Media
• David Beacom, Publisher, National Science Teachers Association
• Randi Brill, President and Founder, Quarasan
• Corinne Burton, President, Shell Education and President, Teacher Created Materials
• Robert Coughlan, Principal, Capstone Publishers
• Grant Davies, CEO, Teaching Strategies Inc.
• David Glover, CEO, Learning Media
• Kathy Hurley, SVP, Strategic Partnerships, Pearson Education and Pearson Foundation
• Michael Johnson, Full Potential Associates
• Victoria Porras, Founder, President, and Owner, Victory Productions
• Roger Rosen, President, Rosen Publishing
• Maria Szalay, Senior Vice President of Product Development, K12
• Bret Thomas, President & CEO, Bayard, Inc.
• Scott Traylor, CEO & Chief KID, 360KID
• Ira Wolfman, Senior Vice President, Editorial, Weekly Reader Publishing

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