1.   Combined, the deal quickly made SoftKey the dominant player in educational software.

2.   Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc.

3.   The company is now the main supplier of educational software to schools.

4.   The educational software was sent to teachers for review.

5.   There was a time when educational software looked rich with commercial promise.

6.   Today, after ten years of commercial failure, most of the print-on-paper publishers who entered the educational software market, have withdrawn.

7.   Ironically, it is the small educational software specialists rather than the big battalions who saw this trend developing.

8.   Among the biggest decliners today was educational software maker Edmark.

9.   Analysts said educational software stocks fell because of lower-than-expected earnings from Broderbund Software Inc., the biggest educational software publisher.