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Plato Courses - Biology

Plato Courses – Biology

The growth of online learning has mirrored the meteoric growth of the Internet into our daily lives. Plato has made delivering educational lessons an art form with their unparalleled programs and teaching approach. No matter how old you are you will find yourself thirsting for knowledge, excited to relearn or amazed at how much more […]

Plato Test Packs

Plato Test Packs

The growth of online learning has mirrored the meteoric growth of the Internet into our daily lives. Plato has made delivering educational lessons an art form with their unparalleled programs and teaching approach. No matter how old you are you will find yourself thirsting for knowledge, excited to relearn or amazed at how much more

Straight Curve Mathematics

Straight Curve Mathematics

The growth of online learning has mirrored the meteoric growth of the Internet into our daily lives. Plato has made delivering educational lessons an art form with their unparalleled programs and teaching approach. No matter how old you are you will find yourself thirsting for knowledge, excited to relearn or amazed at how much more

Hooked on Phonics <BR>Roll & Read

Rolling specially designed dice with letters is the first step in Hooked on Phonics Roll and Read game, and also the first step towards really understanding how letters and their sounds are the building blocks of words. By using the game cards with partially spelled words, words that are missing a crucial letter, children excitedly

Hooked on Phonics <BR>Menu Match

This educational game, that carries the Hooked on Phonics brand will provide your children with a great fun AND educational experience. Parents can adjust the level of game play so that it matches their child’s abilities and doesn’t get boring. The included spatula to “flip” cards was a real favorite. The colorful packaging and easy

Speak In A Week! - Spanish For You!

If you have a trip planned to a Spanish speaking country and want to give your children a quick submersion into the language, then this kit is just what you are looking for. Very easy to follow, and logically progressive the methods employed are very effective and will give you a working knowledge of the

Discover Reading Toddler Deluxe

Discover Reading Toddler Deluxe

This all-in-one teaching tool, designed to introduce the fun of reading to toddlers, drew glowing reviews from testers. Reporting how much their children loved the books and flash cards they also gave high scores to HOF for their great packaging and impressive presentation. The instructions for parents are quite helpful and illustrate some of the

Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Pre-K Deluxe

This superb learning tool from Hooked on Phonics simply knocked out our testers. They were amazed at how using picture cards and songs could help their children learn, remember and recognize. The reaction was so positive to the HOF approach that word of mouth started even before we identified this product as a Seal of

Brain Quest DVD Game: Ages 6 to 8

Brain Quest DVD Game: Ages 6 to 8

Brain Quest is a superb series that has met with the approval of our testers time and time again in various incarnations whether on the computer, in travel sets and more. Now the challenge comes to DVD and the streak continues. Featuring great, colorful graphics and very easy to understand directions, your children will immediately

One Minute Reader Series

One Minute Reader Series

This thoroughly unique approach to teaching reading really impressed our testers. The One Minute Reader program focuses on your child’s reading fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. What that means is that reading becomes as simple and natural as speaking. When that happens reading becomes more enjoyable because it is not filled with hesitation and pauses to

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’24 February 15th March 13th April 19th May 8th
FALL ’24 June 1st June 24th July 31st August 15th
HOLIDAY ’24 September 1st September 24th October 31st November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners will be announced in a media release distributed to over 4,700 media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor, and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There was three testing periods each year:

Each submission was accompanied by a small product testing fee (we offered multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* The Seal’s winners was announced in a media release distributed to over many media outlets, including Facebook, Mommy bloggers, TV stations, newspapers, and parenting influencers.

* The report were forwarded to buyers retail and online stores including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report were featured on TNPC’s website as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

HOW IT WORKS

 

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period Testing Begins Submission Deadline Testing Ends Report Issued
SPRING ’23 February 15th March 10th April 24th May 10th
FALL ’23 June 1st June 23rd July 31st August 16th
HOLIDAY ’23 September 1st September 22nd October 30th November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

To submit a product click here.

HOW IT WORKS

A Seal of Approval review involves a multi-step process conducted over an eight-week period.

Parents and children, experience and review submitted products and services either already released or coming to market.

Participants fill out questionnaires for each product or service they test. They score based on 13 levels of criteria including quality, appeal, design, price, packaging, directions, desirability, stimulation, replay factor and more. Results are based on both statistical averaging and comments received by testers.

There are three testing periods each year:

Report Period

SPRING '24

FALL ‘24

HOLIDAY ‘24

Testing Begins

February 15th

June 1st

September 1st

Submission Deadline

March 13th

June 23rd

September 24th

Testing Ends

April 26th

July 31st

October 31st

Report Issued

May 14th

August 15th

November 15th

Each submission must be accompanied by a $295 product testing fee (we offer multiple submission discounts). This fee covers the cost of testing, nothing more. It is non-refundable and has no bearing on the result of the testing. Additionally, we require three samples of the product or access codes for online submissions.

FYI about the Seal of Approval

* Winners of the Seal will be announced in a media release which is distributed to over 4700 media outlets including Facebook, Mommy bloggers and TV station websites.

* The report is forwarded to buyers at over 350 major retail and on-line stores including Amazon, Walmart and Target. Amazon features Seal winners on product pages.

* Each report is featured at TNPC’s web site as well as TNPC’s Twitter & Instagram accounts and Facebook Page.

* Links to company websites and a license to utilize the trademarked Seal of Approval artwork on marketing, packaging and web design are available exclusively to Seal winners for additional fees.

* Submitting a product does not secure or guarantee being awarded a Seal of Approval

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