SCORE! Teams Up With The Wumbler Patch in Rounding Out Kids' Education

SCORE! Teams Up With The Wumbler Patch in Rounding Out Kids' Education

RIDGEWOOD, N.J., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- SCORE! Educational Centers, www.scorelearning.com, will begin integrating The Wumbler Patch's "Make The World A Better Place With Me" children's enrichment program into their monthly curriculum beginning March 14th. The launch will begin in Ridgewood, NJ, hometown to the original Wumbler Patch brick and mortar store (www.wumblers.com, www.wumblerpatch.com) and one of SCORE!'s most innovative centers nationwide.

SCORE! is a subsidiary of Kaplan, Inc., the global education services provider, which is owned by The Washington Post Company. SCORE! Educational Centers operates 80 centers throughout the United States providing children K through 9 with personal attention, positive reinforcement, and a customized curriculum to help children achieve their goals and reach their academic potential in math, reading, spelling, and writing. With The Wumbler Patch program on board, SCORE! will strengthen its teaching through fun activities that focus on educating children on their social, global, environmental, and humanitarian responsibilities.

The timing of The Wumbler Patch's expansion into the educational marketplace through SCORE! could not be better as it aptly coincides with the direct launch of the National Center for Youth Issues, www.ncyi.org, "Teachers Edition" DVD series. Up to 35,000 public and private elementary schools and learning institutions throughout the United States will enjoy The Wumblers animated children's series beginning this month.

Monica Zamora, community relations coordinator for SCORE!, said; "I SCORE! reached out to The Wumbler Patch because they teach kids the importance of making the world a better place by teaching and practicing important social, global, and environmentally responsible messages. The Wumbler Patch is kid friendly and complements what we do at SCORE!

Laura Wellington-Gerry, CEO, The Giddy Gander Company, states "SCORE! is a company that truly cares about children. They offer the needed academic support set in a warm and inviting environment. It is this combination that made The Wumbler Patch want to team with SCORE! and enhance what they were already doing in a way that will ensure more socially, globally, environmentally, and humanitarianly conscious children while having fun!"

For further information, contact Heidi Schwartz, VP of Strategic Alliances, The Giddy Gander Company, heidis@giddygander.com, (201) 389-6692

For further information about SCORE! please visit www.scorelearning.com or call (949) 348-1700.

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Source: The Giddy Gander Company

CONTACT: Heidi Schwartz, VP of Strategic Alliances, The Giddy Gander
Company, +1-201-389-6692, heidis@giddygander.com

Web Site: http://www.wumblers.com/

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