December 2009

Boston -- December 1st, 2009 -- The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) will look toward Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Riverside Publishing to provide the norm-referenced testing component of Kentucky’s interim assessment program, which will be administered to all students in grades 3–7.

The...

Boston -- December 2nd, 2009 -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced the introduction of its Texas Journeys and Spanish-language Texas Senderos reading programs across the lone star state. Texas Journeys and Texas Senderos are the first and only blended education...

Boston -- December 10th, 2009 -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced the launch of an online community designed specifically for California teachers on the popular social networking website Facebook. The “California Teachers’ Network” was created to provide educators with an online forum to...

Boston -- December 11th, 2009 -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced the appointment of Scott Bowker, one-time SVP at Scholastic Inc., as Senior Vice President and Manager of Supplemental Sales of its K–12 publishing division.

Most recently, Scott worked with The Sandhill Consulting...

Boston -- December 15th, 2009 -- Helping California teachers during challenging times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has donated more than 25,000 textbooks and educational materials statewide through its California Textbook Giveaway. Educational materials valued at more than $1 million were distributed including mathematics,...

Boston -- December 17th, 2009 -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced the appointment of James O’Neill as Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management.

“Throughout his career, Jim has demonstrated skill and enthusiasm for conceptualizing product and developing marketing...

Boston -- December 23rd, 2009 -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced that this week’s donation of 10,000 books to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America during the holiday gift drive on NBC’s Today Show brings the Company over the 100,000 mark for books donated in 2009.

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Boston -- December 29th, 2009 -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced an exclusive agreement with former U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett to distribute America: The Last Best Hope, a three volume series and interactive website on United States history that will be available January 1, 2010 for...