For immediate release                                                                                            Contact:  Karen Ahearn

June 1, 2006                                                                                                          Communications Director

                                                                                                                             412-481-7320

                                                                                                                             kahearn@assetinc.org

ASSET Receives Grant from The Frick Fund of the Buhl Foundation

PITTSBURGH – (June 1, 2006) – ASSET (Achieving Student Success through Excellence in Teaching) Inc. has received a $38,000 grant from the Henry C. Frick Educational Fund of the Buhl Foundation. The grant will support ASSET’s Teacher Professional Development Program and the Inquiry Science Endorsement, which helps prepare teacher candidates from regional universities for standards-based science teaching.

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 about 5,000 science classrooms throughout Western Pennsylvania now experience the same standards-based learning materials in their classrooms and are taught by teachers who receive professional development directly linked to the curriculum.

“Support from the Frick Fund of the Buhl Foundation will help us provide relevant, research-based professional development for more teachers as well as link prospective teachers with classroom teachers skilled in teaching hands-on, standards-based science,” said Dr. Reeny Davison, ASSET’s executive director.

For more information on ASSET Inc., visit 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.