, Thomson Higher Education, a
global provider of teaching materials for higher education and part of the
Thomson Company (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC), and WebAssign, the leading online
homework and testing service for math and science, today announced the
expansion of their alliance to include developing WebAssign products for
Thomson Brooks/Cole's developmental, finite, and precalculus mathematics
textbooks .com), with 2005 revenues of
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WebAssign is a hosted system headquartered at North Carolina State
University's Centennial Campus in Raleigh, with servers located at MCNC in
Research Triangle Park .

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"By making both our own highly
successful ThomsonNOW course management system and the WebAssign system
available, we can better meet the individual needs and preferences of each
instructor.

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president, Thomson Arts and Sciences. With operational headquarters in
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In addition to online end-of-chapter problems with feedback, Thomson
Brooks/Cole Mathematics WebAssign products include tutorials, videos, and an
integrated eBook that allows students to access pertinent examples or
explanations from their textbook while they are working their problems.

About WebAssign
A relatively small company, WebAssign has been leading the field of online
homework systems in innovation, responsiveness, and acceptance by higher
education since its inception in 1997.

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About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Higher Education
The Thomson Corporation (http: //www. The Corporation's common shares are
listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson Higher Education is a leading provider of higher education textbooks,
software , and Internet materials for the humanities, behavioral and social
sciences, mathematics and the sciences , and business and economics.J.

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WebAssign homework system proven to increase student success in the
quantitative disciplines. It will let them take the
data and make faster decisions on how to improve student achievement."

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.

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, Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides
services in approximately 130 countries.

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Thomson provides value-
added information , software tools and applications to more than 20 million
users in the fields of law, tax, accounting , financial services, higher
education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment ,
scientific research and healthcare. ETS is providing
IDMS as a value-added service as part of the existing contract at no
charge to the state.org

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publishes under the brands of Thomson Wadsworth, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Thomson
South-Western, Thomson Heinle, and Thomson Schirmer .
The process uses ETS's Instructional Data Management System
(IDMS), and offers districts powerful , easy-to-use tools to create
tables of data for analyzing and reporting NJ ASK results for 2003 and
2004. "School
personnel can quickly and easily view, compare, and report relative
performance among groups.

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WebAssign products already available with Thomson Brooks/Cole textbooks in
physics , chemistry, astronomy, and biology have garnered acclaim from both
professors and students. Professors like WebAssign because they find that
students complete more of their assignments with more proficiency , which adds
up to increased success in the course. "It reinforces that
learning and testing are comprised of equal parts standards,
curriculum and instruction. 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.

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"IDMS is based on the principle of allowing school administrators,
district directors, and teachers to look at data that is specific to
their needs," explains John Oswald, Senior Vice President of
Elementary and Secondary Education at ETS. It defines the core knowledge and skills
from state standards that are essential for the grade level or course.

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"Our collaboration with WebAssign is just a small illustration of our
commitment to providing the best learning materials possible to both
instructors and students.webassign.

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"We are confident that our mathematics customers will be as pleased with
the results they achieve with our customized WebAssign products as are their
colleagues in the sciences," said Michelle Julet, vice president, editor-in-
chief for Mathematics and the Sciences for Thomson Brooks/Cole. "In
quantitative courses, completing homework problems regularly and accurately is
crucial to student success in the course. WebAssign facilitates just that."
As Joe Heafner of Catawba Valley Community College said of his experience
with WebAssign in his college physics course, "WebAssign's greatest advantage
is that students get immediate feedback on their work.com/brookscole.----To help school
districts track student achievement, understand performance trends,
improve teaching effectiveness, and analyze results for NCLB
requirements, ETS and the New Jersey Department of Education are
launching a new student data management system throughout the state.
This is great news for New Jersey.

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Instructors can view a demo of the new mathematics WebAssign offering from
Thomson Brooks/Cole by visiting http://www. WebAssign
products for developmental and precalculus mathematics will be available to
students for fall 2006 classes.

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In traditional courses , they could
spend hours on homework and hand it in without knowing whether they were doing
the problems right or wrong. We are dedicated to offering our customers a range
of choices in homework and course management systems," said Sean W.

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BELMONT, Calif."
"The Instructional Data Management System allows school personnel
to view any combination of available performance measures for any
group of variables, including gender, ethnicity, District Factor
Group, and Abbott district status," Commissioner Librera said. 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. Additional information is available at
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Classes "flow" better because WebAssign can be integrated into classroom
instruction. Currently, the service is used by
hundreds of thousands of students and teachers nationwide and internationally. It's an excellent tool for use on the local
level.

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Thomson Higher Education Teams with WebAssign to Extend Popular Online Homework System to Customers Using Thomson Brooks/Cole Mathematics Textbooks

It not only allows educators to create accountable instructional
calendars, but also helps them plan instruction guided by data on
student strengths and areas of concern.ets.

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"With this system, administrators and teachers will be able to
make much better use of their testing data.

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Thomson Brooks/Cole content and technology experts worked closely with
WebAssign to develop custom material that enhances the standard WebAssign
offering. NJ ASK is the New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge,
which tests student achievement in the knowledge and critical thinking
skills defined by the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards in
language arts literacy, mathematics, and science.

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The second greatest
advantage is that I no longer have to grade innumerable homework papers.

ETS and N.J. Dept. of Education Launch New Student Data Management Tool for New Jersey School Districts

"This data tool is a major breakthrough and an enormous help for
educators in this state," Commissioner of Education William L.

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Students appreciate that they can see
instantly if they are doing a problem wrong, and then can use WebAssign's
instant feedback to get back on track.thomson.