McGraw-Hill Education

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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


Contacts

Website: www.mheducation.com / www.mheducation.co.uk

References

  1. McGraw-Hill Education prepares for IPO - sources, Reuters, 30 April 2015
  2. Valerie Strauss, Blended learning: The great new thing or the great new hype?, Washington Post, 21 June 2015
  3. Fleishman-Hillard, EU transparency register, accessed August 2015