Amplify will offer assessment software, data analysis, a tablet education platform, and new curriculum, in effort to provide comprehensive education services to schools.
McGraw-Hill’s Dan Caton predicts the viability of the Common Core and talks about hot educational technology trends.
As the company prepares to make its education division an independent company, McGraw-Hill names Lloyd Waterhouse the division’s new CEO.
With publishing industry changing, stakeholders debate how free content and new products will determine its future.
The Department of Justice suit alleging collusion to fix e-book prices will continue.
Education publishing giant undergoes voluntary bankruptcy process, vows layoffs, disruption to customers will be avoided.
“I do think there’s a time where Pearson won’t be known for textbooks or instructional programs at all,” says Peter Cohen.
Despite the company’s overall revenue and profit increases, revenue for McGraw-Hill’s K-12 division drops 10 percent year-to-year.
Antitrust suit against Apple and major publishers aims to lower prices of consumer e-books, but the implications for e-textbooks are unclear.
Pearson, Cengage, and MacMillan Higher Education sue open content start-up in latest battle over free and paid education content.