Education
September 10, 2015 at 5:40 pm
NEW YORK – September 10, 2015 – Hachette Livre, the third-largest trade and educational publisher in the world, announced a partnership with leading adaptive learning company Knewton today. Together, the companies will create digital curricula to give every student a more personal learning experience. Hachette Livre’s education publishing houses in France – Hachette Education, Hatier,…
September 10, 2015 at 4:58 pm
It was reported today that education content maker McGraw-Hill Education is planning to go public. The company best known as a publisher of textbooks and instructional materials, it is reported that the company is investing heavily in developing digital content technology like its “Reading Wonders” and “Economics: Principles and Problems” programs. According to regulatory filings…
September 10, 2015 at 2:17 pm
German media giant Bertelsmann is moving its growing education activities into a new business unit with a medium-term revenue target of 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), up from $200 million this year. The new unit will be run like a separate company, alongside its BMG music business. "In this way we create the best possible…
August 27, 2015 at 2:43 pm
BOSTON, Aug. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Cengage Learning today launched the availability of the iOS andAndroid compatible MindTap Mobile app. Developed based on student feedback, MindTap Mobile allows students to access many features of Cengage Learning’s highly successful MindTap e-learning platform directly from their smartphones anytime, anywhere. “MindTap Mobile offers the tools students tell us they…
August 27, 2015 at 2:04 pm
City education officials have shelved a $30 million deal to give students electronic books after advocates complained it would exclude the visually impaired. Online retail giant Amazon had been poised to land the groundbreaking, three-year contract to create a new ebook marketplace for the Big Apple’s 1,800 public schools. But Department of Education officials said…
August 25, 2015 at 3:29 pm
Although Scholastic recently sold several of its EdTech properties to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, including READ 180, iRead, and MATH 180, the publisher is not entirely out of the education services game, writes CEO Richard Robinson in a recent letter to clients. “With that sale now complete, I would like to update you on the focus, capability, and exciting future of Scholastic Education—our ongoing education business which includes familiar programs such as Classroom Magazines
August 25, 2015 at 2:48 pm
New York, NY – August 24, 2015 – As the new school year begins, Scholastic has significantly expanded its resources and organization to provide customized Comprehensive Literacy Solutions for school districts. Scholastic has realigned its approach to increasing student achievement by combining its well-known teaching and learning programs into a comprehensive literacy improvement program in…
August 24, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Companies that aspire to transform old-fashioned reading into an interactive media experience are on the rise, and they are increasingly looking to schools as a promising market. Earlier this month, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt bought a library of over 700 interactive books and related technology assets from MeeGenius, an e-book subscription company focused on early readers.…
August 18, 2015 at 5:31 pm
(New York, NY: August 18, 2015) The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) has just released new findings from surveys conducted in Spring 2015 and analyzed in two publications, Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education, Volume Five Report 2, and its companion study, Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. Both reports are available for…
August 7, 2015 at 2:49 pm
HMH captured 41% market share for the first half of the year in its domestic education market for K-12 instructional materials.
