For immediate release                                                                                          Contact:  Karen Ahearn

December 14, 2005                                                                                              Communications Director

                                                                                                                              412-481-7320

                                                                                                                              kahearn@assetinc.org

ASSET Receives Grant from the Estelle S. Campbell Charitable Foundation

PITTSBURGH – (December 14, 2005) – ASSET (Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching) Inc. has received a $10,000 grant from the Estelle S. Campbell Charitable Foundation to help expand professional development and teacher participation efforts in ASSET’s Center for Teacher Professional Development program.

ASSET’s 48 member school districts, charter and private schools have prepaid for more than 2,500 professional development session participants this year, according to Dr. Reeny Davison, Executive Director of ASSET Inc. “Highly qualified teaching is an emphasis of No Child Left Behind, and demand for high quality teacher professional development continues to grow,” Davison said. “Support from the Estelle S. Campbell Charitable Foundation will assist us in helping teachers to continuously improve teaching and learning.”

ASSET provides K-8 standards-based science and technology materials and teacher professional development programs that directly impact 3,000 teachers and 125,000 students in 48 school districts, charter and private schools. Students in nearly 5,000 classrooms throughout Western Pennsylvania now learn science the same way using standards-based learning materials and are taught by teachers who receive professional development directly connected to a standards-based curriculum.

For more information on ASSET Inc., visit www.assetinc.org or call 412-481-7320.

About ASSET:

Established by Bayer Corporation and other community partners in 1994, ASSET Inc. is an independent, nonprofit education reform initiative dedicated to continuously improve the abilities of teachers with initial efforts in K-8 science and technology education. The largest program of its kind in the state, ASSET is the only one of 22 educational reform programs originally funded by the National Science Foundation that has achieved operational self-sustaining status.