"
The Business English Level Indicator Test, which assesses a test
taker's current English level, was developed in cooperation with Dr. is a leading provider of computer-based and
e -learning instruction for kindergarten through adult learners,
offering award-winning curricula in reading, writing, mathematics,
science, social studies, and life and job skills.

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For more information about how
GlobalEnglish can help prepare your workforce for global business
opportunities, write to info@globalenglish. For more information, contact
Convera at 800-755-7005, via e-mail at info@convera .

Contact:
Lisa Allocca
Red Javelin Communications, Inc. "We are encouraged to see districts maximize
the benefits of educational technology by incorporating it across
programs .

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"This service
will help companies quickly and easily determine the need for training
and efficiently direct resources to the appropriate employees.
(Logo: http://www. All other product or
corporate references may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.

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Convera's technologies manage vast stores of structured and unstructured
information that exist within internal repositories and on the Web by
providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search capabilities
across text, video, image and audio information, in multiple languages.convera.com.832.

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More
than 900 customers in 40 countries rely on Convera search solutions to power a
broad range of mission -critical applications.
PLATO Learning is headquartered at 10801 Nesbitt Avenue South,
Bloomington , Minnesota 55437, 952.

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, a leading
provider of geographic intelligence solutions, announced today it has joined
Convera Corporation's (Nasdaq: CNVR), Open Excalibur(TM) Partner Program
enhancing Excalibur's ability to solve advanced Internet search challenges.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20060320/NEM003LOGO )
MetaCarta's technology automatically identifies geographic references
using advanced natural language processing (NLP) from unstructured content in
a customer's archives, including email, web pages, newswires and cables. As a rural district, we do not want our students'
educational experiences defined by where they live," said Sharon Kirk,
superintendent of schools, DuBois Area School District .1000 or 800.

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In addition to answering standard
test questions that evaluate current English skills , test takers are
asked to describe their need for communicating in English.
"Convera is building an open platform for mining the Internet," said
Patrick Condo, CEO of Convera. (NASDAQ:TUTR), a leading provider of K-adult computer-based and
e-learning solutions, announced a $500,000 first quarter FY2005
agreement with rural Pennsylvania's DuBois Area School District to
provide PLATO(R) Instructional Solutions to their 4,728 K-12 students. PLATO Learning educational software is marketed to K-12
schools , colleges, job training programs, correctional institutions,
military education programs, corporations , and individuals and is
delivered via networks, CD-ROM, the Internet, and private intranets.

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"We developed the Enterprise English Assessment Service because
our research has shown that although 91 percent of employees of global
corporations say that English skills are critical or important to
their jobs, only 9 percent believe that their proficiency is
sufficient to succeed in their current roles," said Mark Engelter,
Director of Marketing for GlobalEnglish Corporation. The Open Excalibur(TM) platform will allow customers to
incorporate other best-of-breed technologies to customize the Excalibur search
and analysis capabilities to their specific needs.
"MetaCarta's unique technology has already proven essential to government
and commercial enterprises. MetaCarta products make data and unstructured
content "location-aware" making that information geographically relevant . With over 6,000
hours of objective-based, problem-solving courseware, plus assessment,
alignment , and curriculum management tools, we create standards-based
curricula that facilitate learning and school improvement.

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The Enterprise English Assessment Service was developed in
response to the needs expressed by human resources and training
professionals for an efficient and accurate measure of English
training needs. "We have demonstrated over and over
again, with companies like Hilton International, Deloitte, Schneider
Electric and Procter + Gamble, that thousands of hours of productivity
can be gained -- and millions of dollars saved -- by improving English
proficiency within a global workforce.

MetaCarta is a trademark of MetaCarta, Incorporated. The
Company has offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom,
and Canada, as well as international distributors located in Puerto
Rico, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. For more
information , please visit www.

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Kathleen Bailey, professor of applied linguistics at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies and author of Learning About
Language Assessment: Dilemmas , Decisions and Directions. is a publicly held company traded as TUTR on
the NASDAQ-NMS, with trailing 12-month revenues of approximately $141
million.

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The new service
permits global companies to conveniently assess how well their
employees currently communicate in English, while identifying those
individuals who need to improve their English skills.

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In addition, Convera is working with partners
on an open indexing API to allow 3rd party technologies such as language
processing, entity extractors, and geo-tagging to fit directly into the
indexing pipeline.com or on the Web at
http://www.com.

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redjavelin .

Business Editors/Education Editors

MINNEAPOLIS----PLATO(R) Learning,
Inc.plato.

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Group
reporting also allows test results to be aggregated and analyzed over
an entire enterprise or for a single department or region.com

PLATO(R) is a registered trademark of PLATO Learning, Inc .

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"Through our years of experience working with global corporations,
we have seen that many do not realize the negative business impact
that language barriers have on strategic growth," said Ron Hoge,
GlobalEnglish President and CEO. The
BELIT results can also be used with the GlobalEnglish personalized
study plan to match training with current level of English
proficiency., a provider of geographic intelligence solutions, provides
users with map-driven geographic search, geographic referencing, and data
visualization capabilities.

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It
then assigns a latitude and longitude to these references so that users can
analyze their text archives using geographic maps, keywords and time as
filters. MetaCarta's solution complements Excalibur and
together provides a robust solution for these communities," said Claudine
Bianchi, Vice President of Marketing at MetaCarta.

About Convera
Convera is a leading provider of search technologies to commercial
enterprises and government agencies. For more information, please visit http://www.
"We are determined to provide our students with a state-of-the-art
education."
PLATO Instructional Solutions will be used in a variety of
applications across the district including virtual schools,
classrooms, home-based learning, individualized instruction, and
alternative education.
Under the agreement, DuBois Area School District will implement
the full PLATO Learning K-12 instructional suite delivered via
client -hosted PLATO(R) Web Learning Network, along with professional
development to train their teachers to effectively integrate
educational technology into the DuBois curriculum.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., MetaCarta(R), Inc.com

DuBois Area School District Implements PLATO Instructional Solutions to Enhance Rural Education Opportunities

The flexibility built into our solutions facilitate this
diverse, districtwide implementation, and we are eager to provide
students in this rural district with access to the same learning
opportunities their peers receive in urban and suburban areas," said
PLATO Learning President + CEO Mike Morache.

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Service Developed with Professor of Applied Linguistics
to Aid Simple and Accurate Assessment of Employee
English Listening and Reading Skills Worldwide

GlobalEnglish Corporation, the leading online English learning and
support service provider for business communication, announced today
the release of the Enterprise English Assessment Service, featuring
the Business English Level Indicator Test (BELIT)(TM)."
The Open Excalibur(TM) search platform provides easy integration of the
3rd party products and services by adhering to established open interface
standards such as REST and XML.

About PLATO Learning

PLATO Learning, Inc.2000.

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com

About MetaCarta

MetaCarta, Inc. PLATO
Learning is a trademark of PLATO Learning, Inc.

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http://www.

Academic studies of the learning and acquisition of first and second languages.

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Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

BRISBANE, Calif. Through its two offerings, Excalibur(TM),
a newly developed Web search solution and RetrievalWare(R), its enterprise
search product, Convera offers unique search technology capable of providing
an integrated results page derived from both intranet and Internet content. The company also
offers innovative online assessment and accountability solutions and
standards-based professional development services.

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GlobalEnglish and non-GlobalEnglish customers may purchase the
Enterprise English Assessment Service.metacarta.
(978) 470-2227
lisa@redjavelin. We
have extraordinary teachers, and by supplying them with PLATO
Instructional Solutions, we are supplying them with another
high-quality tool that expands the academic reach we offer our
students.
PLATO Learning, Inc.

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"
The Enterprise English Assessment Service provides an analysis of
the scope and scale of an organization's business communication
challenges surrounding language. The 25- to
30-minute test is delivered entirely online to determine the test
taker's current level of English reading and listening ability.

MetaCarta Joins Convera's Open Excalibur Partner Program

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It is a practical, scalable solution for global
organizations, offering simple setup , administration and reporting
tools for testing of up to 100,000 employees. "We provide the basic infrastructure and the
index/search/retrieval function on which other key technologies can be layered
to solve customers' problems.
These innovative solutions make it possible for customers to discover ,
visualize, and act on important location-based information. "PLATO
Learning gives us the ability to use a technology-based program to
provide our students with expanded access to cutting-edge programs .869.

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New GlobalEnglish Assessment Service Simplifies Measurement of Business English Skills

MetaCarta 's geographic search capabilities will allow Excalibur users to
rapidly sift through and find relevant unstructured data using geographic text
references inherent in that information. Founded by a team
of MIT researchers in 1999, MetaCarta is privately held, with US headquarters
in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in Vienna, Virginia and Houston,
Texas.