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D. C. Heath and Company was an American publishing company specializing in textbooks. [1] It was founded in 1885 in Boston by Edwin Ginn and Daniel Collamore Heath [2] and was later located at 125 Spring Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. [3]
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.
It was formerly known as Houghton Mifflin Company, but it changed its name following the 2007 acquisition of Harcourt Publishing. [10] Prior to March 2010, it was a subsidiary of Education Media and Publishing Group Limited, an Irish-owned holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and formerly known as Riverdeep .
The Human Brain: Its Capacities and Functions (Houghton Mifflin) A Short History of Biology (Natural History Press) Quick and Easy Math (Houghton Mifflin) Adding a Dimension (Doubleday) Planets for Man (Random House), with Stephen H. Dole; The Rest of the Robots* (Doubleday) Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Doubleday)
The first ClueFinders title, The ClueFinders 3rd Grade Adventures: The Mystery of Mathra, was released in January 1998, and The ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures was released in July. The Learning Company used their new game as the prototype for Internet Applet technology, which allowed users to download supplementary activities from the ...
READ 180 was founded in 1985 by Ted Hasselbring and members of the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University.With a grant from the United States Department of Education’s Office of Special Education, Dr. Hasselbring developed software that used student performance data to individualize and differentiate the path of computerized reading instruction. [3]
Reader Rabbit is an educational video game franchise created in 1984 by The Learning Company.The series is aimed at children from infancy to the age of nine. In 1998, a spiritual successor series called The ClueFinders was released for older students aged seven to twelve.
Lewis M. Terman, a psychologist at Stanford University, was one of the first to create a version of the test for people in the United States, naming the first localized version the Stanford revision of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale (1916) and the second version the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale (1937). [4]