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For more than 75 years, Scholastic has been committed to creating high quality education materials for students, teachers, and families. A major multimedia company, Scholastic is the world's leading publisher and distributor of children's books, classroom and professional magazines, instructional materials, and other educational products. Scholastic also publishes education software and produces video and television programming for children and families.
SER--Jobs for Progress is a national network of organizations that, in partnership with the corporate and public sectors, administers, formulates, and advocates initiatives to increase the development and utilization of America's human resources. The corporation concentrates on addressing the needs of Hispanics for education, job skills training, literacy, and employment opportunities, with emphasis on literacy as the foundation of all learning. SER has some 40 affiliates located in 80 cities in the continental United States and Puerto Rico.
The Software Publishers Association (SPA) is the international trade association for the desktop computer software industry. Founded in 1984, SPA now has more than 1200 members, comprised of large and small publishers in the education, business, and consumer markets worldwide. The Education Market Section comprises some 700 companies whose common business interest is to publish education software for the K-12, home, preschool, school-to-work, adult, special education, vocational, and postsecondary education markets.
The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) is a trade association for daily newspapers, with 420 members in 14 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia). Since 1989 SNPA has promoted a program that encourages member newspapers to participate in community efforts to overcome illiteracy and Newspaper in Education programs for schools (described in the Thomson Newspaper Corporation section).
The Special Libraries Association has a membership of nearly 15,000 special librarians and information managers, brokers, and consultants at companies, government agencies, museums, hospitals, and other types of organizations with specialized information needs. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has 56 chapters, in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and 28 divisions representing industry specialists. The association helps meet the needs of its members in the areas of professional development, government relations, public relations, and research. It recognizes literacy as a fundamental personal and professional skill.
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