"Educators around the world have long turned to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to provide the best research-based education materials," said Terry Nealon, International Publishers senior vice president, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. "These latest successes in Latin America further solidify our firm reputation as the most respected source of innovative learning solutions worldwide."

The Company has recently authorized Librería y Papelería Guayaquil as the exclusive distributor of its core curriculum digital education solutions in Ecuador, including Destination Math, Destino Matemáticas, Destination Reading, Destino Lectura, the Edmark House Series and Earobics. Librería y Papelería Guayaquil, previously an authorized distributor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt print solutions, will use this strengthened partnership to promote both print and digital offerings by delivering best-in-class blended solutions to Ecuadorian schools.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has also signed a new contract with partner Vernet to distribute its solutions in Central America. The new contract extends the two companies' existing relationship, which originally covered Puerto Rico. Vernet has successfully distributed Destino Matemáticas, Destino Lectura and other programs in Puerto Rico and is already making great strides toward establishing new business in Central America.

Finally, the Company's Moving into English program — a bilingual language acquisition program that provides teachers with flexible, intuitive and language-rich resources to help improve students' phonemic awareness, phonics, language exploration, comprehension and fluency — has met success throughout Latin America. Panama's Ministry of Education chose Moving into English as a leading program for its public schools national bilingual project, "English for Life," and Costa Rica's Ministry of Education will begin a Moving Into English pilot program next January.