New York, NY (June 16, 2003) -- Scholastic Inc. announced today the appointment of Greg Worrell as President of the Scholastic Library Publishing division. Worrell is a ten-year veteran of Scholastic, and most recently served as Senior Vice President of sales and marketing for Scholastic Education, a leading provider of technology and reading products for K-12 schools.
 
In his new role, Worrell will oversee the company's library publishing business including editorial, marketing and sales of the division's major children's reference and nonfiction imprints including Grolier®, Grolier Online®, Children's Press®, and Franklin Watts®, and such notable reference resources as Encyclopedia Americana®, New Book of Knowledge®, and Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea®. Mr. Worrell will report to Margery Mayer, Executive Vice President, Scholastic and President of Scholastic Education.
 
Margery Mayer said: “Greg is a strong leader with a driving passion to support the efforts of educators and librarians to help all children achieve academic success. Greg's leadership combined with his deep understanding of the education market has been instrumental in our recent success in curriculum publishing.”
 
“Scholastic Library Publishing and the outstanding Grolier imprints will now be linked with the highly successful Scholastic Education Group under Margery Mayer,” said Richard Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO of Scholastic Inc. “This will bring all of our U.S. education and library publishing together, enabling us to leverage our editorial and sales efforts.”
 
While at Scholastic's Education division, Worrell and his marketing and sales teams helped grow the business through a number of key initiatives including increased focus on the customer, expanded service and technical support, and greater attention to market research and new product development. Mr. Worrell also implemented highly effective strategic sales programs and direct marketing promotions, taking advantage of Scholastic's channels into schools via sales force, catalog, telesales, and the Internet.
 
During his tenure, Worrell oversaw the marketing and sales efforts for Scholastic's research-based instructional materials including the company's breakthrough reading intervention program READ 180®, as well as other technology and reading improvement programs, assessment and management products, the company's 34 curriculum-based, grade-by-grade Classroom Magazines, and a wide range of supplementary materials.
 
Worrell joined Scholastic in 1992, where he developed new marketing channels for the company's flagship Classroom Magazines. Worrell also served as Chief Operations Officer for Quality Education Data, Inc. (QED) a Denver-based education market research and database company acquired by Scholastic in 1999. Before joining Scholastic, Worrell held positions at MCI Telecommunications where he supervised field sales and telemarketing for New York City and other major metropolitan areas, and worked as a political fundraiser in Washington DC.
 
Mr. Worrell will be based in Danbury, Connecticut.
 
Scholastic Library Publishing is the leader in print and online children's reference and non-fiction materials serving school, public and academic libraries with the highly regarded imprints of Grolier, Franklin Watts, Children's Press and Grolier Online. Major reference sets include Encyclopedia Americana, The New Book of Knowledge, Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, Lands and Peoples and The New Book of Popular Science.
 
About Scholastic
Scholastic Corporation (NMS: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books. Scholastic creates quality educational and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home, including children's books, textbooks, magazines, technology-based products, teacher materials, television programming, videos and toys. The Company distributes its products and services through a variety of channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs, school-based book fairs, school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs; retail stores, schools, libraries, and television networks; and the Company's Internet Site, www.scholastic.com.

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