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Saturday, April 25, 2015
Scholastic Will Sell Its Entire Education Technology Business
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, April 25, 2015
Costumed fans hold their copies of the book at the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book release party at the Scholastic Book publishers headquarters in New York.
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Scholastic Inc., the publisher of children's books including the Harry Potter series, is taking itself out of the education technology game. The company said today it plans to sell its entire ed-tech business to the publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for $575 million.
Both companies' stock fell on the news of the sale. Houghton Mifflin fell by 7.5%, to $24.50, and Scholastic fell 11.5%, to $39.
Scholastic's move to get out of ed-tech is an unusual one in an era where most education companies are scrambling to beef up their technology capabilities and pushing all-digital content on sometimes-wary schools. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and its two main competitors, Pearson and McGraw-Hill, have all made ed-tech central to their businesses.
Scholastic, however, said it wanted to refocus on its core book business, which includes publishing classic children's titles like Harry Potter, the Golden Compass, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. Scholastic titles are sold in stores, used in classrooms, and through the company's much-beloved book fairs, are a longtime institution of American schools. The company also prints more traditional educational materials.
Scholastic's CEO, Richard Robinson, said in a statement that the company saw growth potential in a "renewed focus on books and reading in schools and at home." The ed-tech division, he said, had a "substantially different model for product development" that did not fit with print publishing and distribution.
The ed-tech division has some 800 employees, who will move to Houghton Mifflin, and revenues of $250 million in 2014. Its central product is a brand of computer-based software focused on remedial education for middle-grade students, called Read 180 and Math 180.
How Many Of These Classic British Novels Have You Read?
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, April 25, 2015
Get ready to expand your reading list.
Someone Made A Game Of Thrones "Too Many Cooks" Mashup And It's Perfect
Posted by Unknown on Saturday, April 25, 2015
Westeros really does have “Too Many Kings.” Warning: spoilers.
If you weren't living under a rock last November, you probably saw Adult Swim's wonderfully bizarre "Too Many Cooks."
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Well now there's a Game of Thrones version called "Too Many Kings" and it's even more bloodthirsty than the original:
Made by Youtuber Alex Cohen, "Too Many Kings" uses the audio from "Too Many Cooks" alongside cleverly cut scenes from HBO's Game of Thrones.
The first three minutes show just how many characters there are in Game of Thrones, but things get weirder near the four minute mark (as in the original video).
Here, the Three-Eyed Raven and King's Landing from Game of Thrones' title sequence replace the falcon and mansion sequence from "Too Many Cooks."
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