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To: tom r. phillips who wrote (238)	3/19/1998 5:23:00 PM
From: Thomas Kirwin	Respond to of 601

Phonics Series Announcement - Quick Read Tom, Thanks for posting the link...... <<TASA's Modern Learning Press Launches Phonics Series>> New product, no sales mentioned. <<The new series is in response to California's recent statement concerning the teaching of phonics statewide.>> Is California's "statement" regarding the teaching of phonics mandated or voluntary? Within what time frame must it be implemented? <<The MLP program is one of the first new phonics teaching series to address the needs of California and other North American schools.>> "One of the first", who else is offering such a phonics series. <<Andrew L. Simon, Chief Executive Officer of TASA, noted ''this change in California's approach to teaching reading opens a new market that has annual sales potential of millions of dollars.>> What will be TASA's cut of millions? I fail to see the significance as no signed agreements or contracts are mentioned. <<''California's preeminent position, by virtue of its size alone, will materially influence other states in their teaching of reading in elementary education. In all likelihood, other states will follow California's decision or have already made their own phonics determination.>> I agree with the domino theory. What states have adopted the phonics solution? Overall I give this press release a big yawn! Regards, Tom

To: tom r. phillips who wrote (238)	3/19/1998 8:55:00 PM
From: csm	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 601

Ho hum. I hope this isn't the announcement they thought would push the stock price over $1. Seems to me there are all kinds of phonics workbooks out there and TASA would have to get a significant share for this to matter. Hopefully I'm out to lunch but this makes it look like TASA is scraping the bottom of the barrel for an announcement. Stuart.

To: tom r. phillips who wrote (238)	3/19/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Thomas Kirwin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 601

Yahoo! Comment Regarding Recent Announcement TASA Announcement SNOWPELLET Mar 19 1998 I guess the announcement is good. I would have liked to have read about signed contracts and their approximate value. Andrew Simon's remarks and the whole press release seems kind of ambiguous. When can we expect to know about the details of how this will relate to the bottom line? To say there is a potential for millions of dollars in sales isn't exactly anything concrete. I hope this does something for the stock price tomorrow, but I'm not too confident about it. With Bob Davis explaining (and rightfully so) how expensive it is to issue press releases and why TASA doesn't normally release many, maybe they could have saved their money until they had more details to convey to the public. Ditto.... Tom