McGraw-Hill Education acquires Grow Network.McGraw-Hill The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (NYSE: MHP) is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services. Education (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), a division of McGraw-Hill Cos., has acquired Grow Network (New York), a privately-held company that is a provider of assessment reporting and customized content for states and large school districts nationwide. No terms of the deal were given. Grow Network utilizes proprietary technology to provide customized test reports and instructional materials for students, families and educators, including personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. data and instructional recommendations, fully integrated with state academic standards. McGraw-Hill said the purchase supports its strategy to provide a range of customized education solutions for both students and teachers. Grow Network will become a unit of the School Education Group and will be renamed Grow Network/McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill Cos. chrm./ceo Harold McGraw III Harold "Terry" McGraw III is president and chief executive officer of McGraw-Hill Companies and chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs of American companies. said that Grow's "unique and proven reporting services help educators respond thoughtfully to the increased accountability and Adequate Yearly Progress Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. requirements associated with No Child Left Behind." |
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