Lucy Calkins’s curriculum was meant to bring phonics to struggling students. But its publication has been stalled after a debate over whether to accommodate conservative state laws. By Dana Goldstein ...

Mark Twain, meet Eminem and the Mummy. Houghton Mifflin Co., one of the nation’s oldest independent trade and educational book publishers whose authors have included Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne, is ...

NEW YORK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and Citi will begin syndicating this week a $7.15 billion bank loan backing Boston-based educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.'s ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier agreed on Monday to sell its education arm Harcourt to rival Houghton Mifflin for $4 billion, creating a giant U.S. textbook firm in an industry ...