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School Specialty is an education company serving the prekindergarten to high school market with supplemental learning products, school furniture, children's publishing and specialized buying services. It is based in Greenville, Wis. The company focuses on designing, developing and marketing products, services and ideas that help teachers engage students of all ages and abilities, and offers more than 80,000 items. It mails over 40 million catalogs annually, and has developed both an online education portal and an e-commerce Web site, to approach its customers, and has partnered with various schools in the United States and Canada. School Specialty also approaches school districts and school administrators through its sales force of more than 300 professionals.

Delta Education provides inquiry-based science and math materials and language arts products for education institutions throughout the United States. The company produces research-based products, including the most widely used elementary school hands-on science program, FOSS. FOSS was developed under a National Science Foundation grant at the University of California, Berkeley. Other divisions of Delta Education include Educators Publishing Service, based in Cambridge, Mass. EPS has been developing literacy materials for differentiated instruction for more than 50 years. Their leading products include Explode the Code , Worldly Wise 3000 and S.P.I.R.E. Delta Education has been in business for more than 30 years and is located in Nashua, N.H.

Classroom Direct is a deep-discount educational superstore. The company offers its customers a variety of education-related supplies, toys, games, educational materials, equipment and products. Its product categories include active play items, art supplies, audiovisual materials, award and incentive products, boards and easels, character education, classroom resources, classroom storage, early childhood products, early child furnishings, electronic education products, English as a second language and English language learner materials, furnishings, games, health awareness items, math-related products, language arts products, office supplies, physical education items, reading materials, room decorations, science items, social studies materials, software and teacher helpers. Classroom Direct is headquartered in Birmingham, Ala.