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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Acquires Award-Winning Culinary Program, Webster’s New World Reference Titles and CliffsNotes Guides from John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

BOSTON -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that its Trade & Reference division has acquired the assets of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s (NYSE: JWa, JWb) culinary portfolio, in addition to class...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches HMH Readers; New iPad App Provides Customizable Reading Experience for Kids K-6

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) announced today that HMH Readers, its new iPad reading app developed for Common Core Standards mastery, is now available for free download in the iTunes...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Schedules Conference Call to Discuss Third Quarter Results

BOSTON -- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that it has scheduled a conference call to announce its third quarter 2012 financial and operating results on Thursday, November 15, 2012.  HMH plans to re...

Join the Fun at the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Hospitality Tent at the 2012 Boston Book Festival

BOSTON -- Settle into a comfy chair with a good book at the HMH Hospitality Tent at this year’s Boston Book Festival! Have your photo taken with Curious George and The Man in the Yellow Hat, try out our latest ap...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Celebrates 180 Years of Historical, Literary and Educational Milestones with New Exhibit at Boston Headquarters, Created in Partnership with Boston Children’s Museum

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today unveiled “Cultivating Curiosity”, an interactive exhibit that showcases 180 years of company history and celebrates Boston’s impac...

Gold Standard Study Shows Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Journeys Common Core 2012 Reading Program Significantly Boosts Student Achievement in Kindergarten, First, and Second Grades

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the results of a gold standard study highlighting the effectiveness of its popular Journeys Common Core 2012 reading program.  In the...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt DataDirector™ Identified as Cornerstone of Turnaround of Sheridan Elementary School in Denver, Colorado

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that DataDirector, its flagship Riverside assessment product, played a key role in the successful turnaround of the Sheridan Elementary S...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the Center for Green Schools Commit to Providing More Than 2 Million Children with Access to Safer, Healthier Learning Environments

BOSTON -- Today at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York, global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) annou...

Online Publishing Startup Libboo Partners with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Discover the Next Digital Bestseller

BOSTON -- Online book publishing startup Libboo has today launched an online pilot program designed to enable the discovery and promotion of new and emerging authors. As part of the three-month program, Libboo has partne...

Spokespeople Available on Topics of Education, Sustainable Schools, CSR and more at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, September 23-25

BOSTON -- At 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday, September 24, Linda K. Zecher, President and CEO of global learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Richard Fedrizzi, President, CEO, and Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Build...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces Standards-Based, Research-Backed Math Expressions Common Core 2013

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the latest edition of one of its popular mathematics programs – Math Expressions Common Core 2013, the only elementary National Sci...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Algebra Curriculum for Apple® iPad® Stimulates a Near 10 Percent Boost in Math Scores

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the results of a year-long pilot of HMH Fuse: Algebra I, the world's first full-curriculum Algebra app for the Apple iPad, involvin...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Commemorates Julia Child’s 100th Birthday with As Always, Julia

BOSTON -- On August 15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will celebrate the life of Julia Child on what would have been her 100th birthday, with the bestselling As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child & Avis Devoto r...

2012 Olympics Recall Achievements of Boxer Floyd Patterson, Subject of New Biography just Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

NEW YORK -- The 2012 Olympic Games marks the sixtieth anniversary of an extraordinary moment in boxing history—when 17-year-old middleweight fighter Floyd Patterson secured gold for the United States—as doc...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Launches Next-Generation Assessment System

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that its Riverside division has released the next generation of the Woodcock Johnson suite of assessment products – the Woodcock I...

New York Department of Labor Selects Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adult Education Group's WorkSkills Curriculum Series to Advance New Youth Works Program

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's (HMH) Steck-Vaughn Adult Education Group today announced that the New York Department of Labor has again selected its WorkSkills curriculum series, as ...

The “God Particle,” Discovered This Week, First Introduced to Public by Leon Lederman in 1993 Book The God Particle, Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

BOSTON -- Nearly 20 years ago, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Nobel Prize-winning author Leon Lederman coined the term “The God Particle” to describe the Higgs Boson, the elementary particle that is cruc...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Promethean Unveil the First Complete Set of Common Core Aligned Interactive Whiteboard Lessons for K-12 Educators

SAN DIEGO -- A unique collaboration between Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Promethean has resulted in two completely developed, ready-to-use collections of Common Core interactive whiteboard lessons for reading and math...