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The Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA) [1] [2] is a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (acquired by HMH in 2023) that creates academic assessments for students pre-K-12. NWEA assessments are used by over 50,000 schools and districts in 149 countries. [3] There are over 16.2 million students using NWEA. [4]
Riverside Insights was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) in 1979. HMH sold Riverside to private equity firm Alpine Investors for $140 million in 2018. [1] The company was incorporated as Riverside Assessments LLC in Delaware and subsequently in other states, including Illinois. [2] [3] [4]
The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago-based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines.
In 2012, HMH acquired the culinary and reference portfolio of John Wiley & Sons, including CliffsNotes and Webster's New World Dictionary. [58] HMH went public in November 2013. [59] In 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sponsored Curious George (TV series) on PBS Kids replacing Chuck E. Cheese. On May 13, 2014, HMH bought Channel One News.
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman. [1]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt officially became a publicly traded company on November 14, 2013, with common shares of stock listed on the NASDAQ exchange. [3] As of 2017, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is offering the Adventure Workshop brand (originally used for titles published by or acquired by Riverdeep) as a licensing opportunity on its website.
Emmerich Manual High School, often referred to as Manual High School, is a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It formerly was a traditional high school in the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) district. It is now one of the schools operated by Christel House Academy and is named Christel House High School. [3]
Linda Zecher Higgins (born May 4, 1953) is an American executive who is the managing director of The Barkley Group since January 2017. She most recently served as the president, CEO and director of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a global education and learning company.