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| − | '''McGraw-Hill Education''' is a digital learning company. It is one of the | + | '''McGraw-Hill Education''' is a digital learning company. It is one of the world's biggest education publishers, like [[Pearson]], [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] and [[Cengage Learning]]. |
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| + | McGraw-Hill Education is owned by private equity firm, [[Apollo Global Management]], which bought the business from McGraw-Hill Companies in March 2013 for $2.4 billion.<ref>[http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/30/us-mcgraw-hilleducation-apollo-global-ex-idUSKBN0NL2UH20150430 McGraw-Hill Education prepares for IPO - sources], Reuters, 30 April 2015</ref> | ||
==Lobbying for education reform== | ==Lobbying for education reform== | ||
Revision as of 22:05, 11 August 2015
McGraw-Hill Education is a digital learning company. It is one of the world's biggest education publishers, like Pearson, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Cengage Learning.
McGraw-Hill Education is owned by private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, which bought the business from McGraw-Hill Companies in March 2013 for $2.4 billion.[1]
Lobbying for education reform
McGraw-Hill promotes online learning. A former president and CEO at McGraw-Hill Education said of online learning: “With this new method and capability, all of a sudden you could see a teacher handling many more students … the productivity could double or triple”[2]
Lobbyists
- Fleishman-Hillard lobbies for McGraw-Hill in Brussels[3]; it also registered McGraw-Hill as a UK lobbying client in 2009-10.
People
- David Levin, CEO
- Peter Cohen, group president US education
- Mark Dorman, president international and professional
- Teresa Martin-Retortillo, senior vice president of Strategy & Business Development; formerly of Bain & Company
- Stephen Laster, chief digital officer
- Heath Morrison, senior vice president of Government Affairs and Education Policy for McGraw-Hill Education.
Contacts
- Website:
References
- ↑ McGraw-Hill Education prepares for IPO - sources, Reuters, 30 April 2015
- ↑ Valerie Strauss, Blended learning: The great new thing or the great new hype?, Washington Post, 21 June 2015
- ↑ Fleishman-Hillard, EU transparency register, accessed August 2015
