HOUGHTON MIFFLIN SCHOOL DIVISION AND MCDOUGAL LITTELL/HOUGHTON MIFFLIN TEAM
UP WITH GLOBAL NETWORK NAVIGATOR TO PUBLISH INTERNET-BASED K-12 EDUCATION
CENTER

Boston, MA -- January 31, 1995 -- Houghton Mifflin Company, a leading
publisher of K-12 instructional materials, and O'Reilly & Associates'
Digital Media Group, the leading Internet-based publisher, today announced
a partnership to develop the Houghton Mifflin/Global Network Navigator
(GNN) K-12 Education Center. The Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center is
a free online service which will appeal to today's busy classroom teacher
by providing unique curriculum and professional development materials and
by organizing Internet resources for K-12 educators, students and
parents.

According to Mr. Ray Shepard, Corporate Vice President, Editor-in-Chief,
Houghton Mifflin School Division, "There is increasing interest in the
information highway and how it can benefit collaboration among both
teachers and students throughout the country and the world. The Houghton
Mifflin/GNN Education Center will provide teachers with online
professional development opportunities, connections to other teachers,
online author interviews, and curriculum support to help meet the diverse
needs of today's students."

The Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center will include a range of resources
for K-12 educators, including Curriculum Centers in Reading, Mathematics,
Social Studies, and Literature/Language Arts. Houghton Mifflin's
elementary division and its secondary division, McDougal Littell/Houghton
Mifflin, will be developing the Curriculum Center materials, ideas, and
projects both to support and extend their current curriculum programs, and
to assist teachers in these general curriculum areas. In addition, the
Education Center's online magazine will help organize and guide educators
to resources, projects, and people on the Internet and provide schools
with information on how to integrate online networks and projects in the
classroom.

"A lively K-12 community on the Internet already exists. We want to join
this existing community to nurture the growth and improve the quality of
the current collaboration and resources on the Internet. We believe that
we can contribute to this community by organizing as well as creating
resources and new connections between people," said Dale Dougherty,
publisher, GNN.

A recent QED report states that more than 25% of K-12 schools are connected
to the Internet and the interest is growing daily. According to Ms. Julie
McGee, Executive Vice President, President, McDougal Littell/Houghton
Mifflin, "We are already developing and selling a variety of multimedia
products for the school market. We view our entrance into online
publishing as the next logical step in our efforts to provide materials
and services to help today's teachers prepare students for the next
century."

Combining O'Reilly & Associates' Digital Media Group's expertise as a web
publisher with Houghton Mifflin School Division and McDougal
Littell/Houghton Mifflin's well-respected position in K-12 education, the
Houghton Mifflin/GNN Education Center will provide dynamic and effective
tools for the learning environment.

About Houghton Mifflin Company

Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading publisher of textbooks, instructional
technology, assessments, and other educational materials for the
elementary and secondary school and college markets, as well as an
extensive line of reference publications, and fiction and nonfiction for
adults and young readers.

About Global Network Navigator

Introduced in October 1993, GNN is an Internet-based digital publication
and publishing platform for emerging digital publishers. As part of its
service, GNN offers up-to-date news, the industry's most complete Internet
directory, online advertising and special interest publications.

GNN is a free service and is available to anyone with full connections to
the global Internet who has worldwide browser and/or Lynx. GNN is a
product of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., a leading publisher of books for
UNIX, X, and the Internet, including the best-selling The Whole Internet
User's Guide and Catalog by Ed Krol.

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