Press Releases

February 24 , 2010

Customer Value Partners and CTB/McGraw-Hill Win Department of Education Streamlined Acquisition Tool (SAT) Contract

Companies Partner to Provide Research Design and Assessment

Fairfax, VA, February 24, 2010 –

Customer Value Partners, an award-winning business and IT consulting firm, and CTB/McGraw-Hill, a leading provider of high quality educational assessment products and services for the K-12 and adult education markets, have today announced that they have teamed and been awarded the Department of Education Streamlined Acquisition Tool (ED-SAT) blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for Pool B - Research and Assessment Design, Data Collection and Analysis.

CTB/McGraw-Hill will provide psychometricians and research statisticians to support this offering. CTB is known internationally for providing research and assessment development and analysis design to state departments of education for more than 80 years.  “We are pleased to team with CVP to support the Department of Education,” said Ellen Haley, president of CTB/McGraw-Hill. “Our extensive experience in assessment design and implementation complements CVP’s capabilities nicely - with our staff of researchers we are well equipped to provide DoED with defensible data they will require to evaluate trends in education, including technology-based assessment and other methodologies.”

CVP personnel have assisted the Department of Education and other federal agencies in designing and improving the quality of the performance measurement process, performance data, and the system and method by which data are collected. Anirudh Kulkarni, CVP CEO and Managing Principal commented, “CVP stands ready to support the Department of Education with a proven, experienced Education team. We are honored to be working with CTB/McGraw-Hill on this critical endeavor.”

The combined team will support task orders to provide the Department of Education with detailed data about external program effectiveness and other important conditions and trends in education. Products from these activities will be used to monitor performance and progress or develop analyses of factors that influence results. Reports will be used to inform Congress and the public about educational outcomes.

About Customer Value Partners

Customer Value Partners (CVP) is an award-winning business and IT consultancy that collaborates with Fortune 500 and public sector clients to accelerate their business performance. We employ Voice-of-Customer based methods to solve performance challenges in the areas of Customer Life-Cycle Management, IT Functional Effectiveness, Program Performance Management, and Digital Media. Based in Fairfax, VA, with operations in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Jackson, MS, New York, and San Diego, our seasoned professionals deliver practical, experienced-based solutions to our clients' strategic, operational, and technological challenges.  For more information, visit us at www.cvpcorp.com.

About CTB/McGraw-Hill

As the nation's leading publisher of formative, interim, and standards-based achievement tests for pre-school, elementary, middle, high school, and adult education, CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC offers a broad range of assessments, software and services. With a staff of doctoral-level researchers, scientists, mathematicians, writers, and editors, we assist thousands of school districts across the nation and score more than 20 million test documents each year. CTB/McGraw-Hill LLC is part of McGraw-Hill Education, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP). McGraw-Hill Education is a leading global provider of instructional, assessment and reference solutions that empower professionals and students of all ages. Additional information is available at www.CTB.com.

Media Contact:

Amee Singh

Customer Value Partners

703.345.9126

asingh@cvpcorp.com