Benchmark Education Company Named a Finalist for Two 2025 CODiE Awards

NEW ROCHELLE, NY, September 26, 2025 — Leading educational publisher Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is pleased to announce that two of its programs are finalists in the 2025 CODiE Awards. The company’s phonics solution for Grades K-5, Benchmark Phonics and Word Study 2nd Edition, is recognized in the category of Best Science of Reading Solution, with its English Language Development program for Grades K-6, Express!, among the finalists in the category of Best Solution for English Language Learners.

The CODiE Awards is the premier peer-recognized awards program celebrating innovation and excellence in technology. Each year, industry experts evaluate products for their innovation, impact, and overall value.

Benchmark Phonics and Word Study 2nd Edition, developed with early literacy expert Wiley Blevins, Ed.D., delivers comprehensive, explicit, systematic, multimodal, foundational literacy instruction based on the latest Science of Reading research. The program’s structured literacy approach emphasizes the application of learning to reading and writing—where the learning sticks—with unit topics designed for building vocabulary and content knowledge. The previous edition of the program was a 2023 CODiE Finalist for Best Science of Reading Foundational Skills Solution and received a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence for Best of 2022.

Express!, developed with biliteracy expert Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes, delivers explicit, systematic, and scaffolded instruction to teach how English works. Prioritizing English language development to strengthen core instruction, the program engages students in purposeful practice that leads to meaningful, real-world language and integrates social studies, science, and literary topics through vertically aligned units. Express! received a Tech & Learning Award of Excellence for Best of 2023.

“This year’s finalists represent the most innovative and impactful technology products on the market today, setting the standard for excellence across the industry,” the CODiE Awards Team said when the finalists were announced. “From cutting-edge AI solutions and developer tools to transformative learning platforms and business technologies, these products have been carefully reviewed by expert judges and reflect the very best our industry has to offer.”

“We are delighted to have two of our solutions as finalists in this year’s CODiE Awards,” BEC President Sera Hoffman said. “Since the founding of Benchmark Education Company, it has been our core mission to create essential, innovative products like Benchmark Phonics and Word Study 2nd Edition and Express!—products that fully support educators and help students advance and achieve. This recognition from the CODiE Awards affirms that we are accomplishing that mission.”

All CODiE finalists will now advance to the second-round community review, which will take place from September 29 to October 10, 2025. Award winners will be announced on October 22.

ABOUT BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY

Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.

BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.

Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.