 Coverage of the White House classes gave the company a needed lift.American Learning Corporation, a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, bought Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics in May 1986, and it was later sold in September 1993 to Pryor Resources, a business seminar training company in Kansas City, Kansas.The business is currently owned by PARK University Enterprises, Inc.

After two strokes, Wood died 26 August 1995 in Tucson, Arizona at age 86.