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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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Completes Financial Restructuring and Emerges From Chapter 11

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that it has completed its financial restructuring and emerged from its chapter 11 reorganization, 32 days after its initial “pre‐p...

New Mexico Selects Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Formative Assessments

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced that two assessments from its Riverside division have been selected as state-approved formative assessments for English/Language Arts an...

Study Finds Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Singapore Math Program Dramatically Raises Student Math Achievement in New Jersey School District

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the results of a study highlighting the effectiveness of its popular Math in Focus: Singapore Math by Marshall Cavendish program.  ...

Before Nik Wallenda, There Was Annie Edson Taylor: Children’s Picture Book by Award-Winning Author/Illustrator Chris Van Allsburg Depicts Original Niagara Falls Daredevil

BOSTON -- In recent weeks, people across the country have been mesmerized by watching high-wire artist Nik Wallenda prepare to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, a stunt scheduled to take place in front of a liv...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and SK Telecom Partner to Create Education Platform for Korean and Global Markets

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and leading Korean wireless service provider SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) are combining their collective industry leadership to enhance the English proficiency...

Official Statement from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

BOSTON -- Today, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt filed a “pre-packaged” comprehensive financial restructuring plan that will strengthen the Company financially so we can continue to invest in our business and ens...

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HISTORY® Unveil New Social Studies iBooks® Textbooks for the Apple® iPad®

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) and A&E Television Networks (AETN), the award-winning global media content company today announced the availability of two popular co-branded high s...

There’s Something New at the Zoo! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Popular Mobile App for Preschoolers Curious George® at the Zoo Introduces New “Deep Freeze” Habitat

BOSTON -- Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced a new addition to its popular Curious George® at the Zoo app with the Deep Freeze habitat, which introduces preschoolers to an Arcti...