Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Extends Integrated Offerings to Support the Evolution of Digital Education

Learning Village connects educators to best practices, instructional strategies,
lesson plans and resources to measure achievement.

The Company's digital platform and curriculum content boost student performance.
WASHINGTON--(Business Wire)--
Global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today outlined its vision for
leadership in digital education by presenting an array of solutions at the
National Education Computing Conference (NECC). The program is highlighted by an
integrated set of tools that unite technology, teacher training and assessment,
and online curriculum content for educators, parents and administrators to
support today's generation of learners. The Company is rapidly expanding its
digital offerings to meet the needs of the entire K-12 community with online
educational resources, assessment tools, digital books, adaptive software,
collaborative learning environments and customized content, performance
monitoring, and professional development tools.

"The digital tide has turned and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is working with
school districts across the United States to meet their unique needs for
integrated teaching and learning programs and tools that support achievement,"
said K-12 President Mike Lavelle, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. "Working with
educators across the globe, we continue to enhance our technology-based content,
curriculum and instructional tools to raise learning to a new level."

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to providing individualized solutions for
educators. By bringing together all of the elements needed for success - from
curriculum management and professional development to core curriculum and
virtual courses - the Company's solutions are driving new educational
experiences across all stakeholder communities. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
combines curriculum management and assessment solutions - such as Learning
Village, Data Director and Edusoft - with its wealth of core curriculum
solutions from such well-known brands as Houghton Mifflin Reading, Math
Expressions, Gateways, Soar to Success, HSP Math, Experience Science and others,
with interactive courseware solutions, including Destination Math and
Destination Reading.

Through the creation of fully integrated curriculum solutions, school districts
across the country are bridging achievement gaps and discovering the learning
benefits of a blended curriculum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is also responding
to teachers' desire for a one-stop, high-value solution through a vast
repository of twenty-first-century tools and resources offered in a variety of
modalities - from print to digital - to help manage and optimize data-driven
instruction for all curriculum areas.

Learning Village supports major school districts across the country

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Learning Village provides a curriculum management
solution that enhances the teaching and learning experience by connecting
educators to best practices, instructional strategies, lesson plans and
resources for measurable student achievement. The benefits of Learning Village
are already being realized across the country. Major school districts have
adopted it to help teachers evaluate both students' needs and teaching
opportunities, track progress throughout the curriculum, and identify students
at risk. Learning Village provides a content-agnostic web-based platform where
teachers, administrators, parents and students can access instructional content
and learning resources as well as best practices and professional development
materials.

Destination Math and Destination Reading boost achievement in St. Lucie Public
Schools

Five years ago, St. Lucie County Public Schools (FL) embarked on a campaign to
turn itself into a world-class educational system by retrofitting traditional
schools with twenty-first-century technologies. To accomplish this goal, St.
Lucie combined the platform of Learning Village with the curriculum content of
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt products, including Destination Reading and
Destination Math, along with a benchmark assessment system.

Destination Reading and Destination Math are used as supplemental instructional
resources to support core instruction either as extensions of learning,
practice, remediation or acceleration, or as a means to provide individualized
or small-group instruction in a highly engaging, interactive learning
environment. Both programs also provide a learning management system (LMS) that
tracks students' performance over time. According to Assistant Superintendent
Dr. Owen Roberts, the integration of Destination Reading and Destination Math
curriculum content with the Learning Village curriculum management system
provides cognitively rich teaching and learning resources that boost learning
and increase student achievement. Coupled with these is the A2K item-bank, which
is aligned to our state standards and provides teachers, students and parents
with vital progress monitoring data for instructional decision-making and
extended curricular support.

"School districts now have drastically differentiated classes that must meet
rigorous accountability standards," said Lavelle. "Individualized learning is
rapidly becoming a basic expectation. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt recognizes this
critical need and is responding to meet it through technology."

Rather than simply providing the platform and curriculum content, a systemic
training plan was also developed and launched in collaboration with Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt over the past five years, to provide teachers and
administrators with ongoing instruction and technical support across all areas
of implementation.

Over the course of the campaign, St. Lucie County Public Schools has made
significant inroads and systemic progress in closing the achievement gap. A
study of the five-year campaign found not only student performance improvement
in math and reading, but also a direct correlation between the amount of
instructional time spent on Destination Math and Destination Reading and student
achievement in those areas. Ninety-seven percent of teachers agreed that the
model of computer-assisted instruction helped their students to master the
content and skills taught in their classrooms. The district itself moved from a
C-rated to a B-rated district, just shy of A, based on Florida's A+ Plan
accountability system.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt at NECC

Visit Houghton Mifflin Harcourt at Booth #1618 at the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center, Washington DC, June 28-July 1, 2009.

About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is a global education
leader and the world's largest publisher of educational materials for pre-K-12
schools. The Company publishes a comprehensive set of best-in-class educational
solutions, ranging from research-based textbook programs to instructional
technology to standards-based assessments for students and educators. The
Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning
literature for adults and young readers. With origins dating back to 1832,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt combines its tradition of excellence with a commitment
to innovation. To learn more about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, visit
www.hmhpub.com.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Josef Blumenfeld, 508-333-0938
Vice President, Communications
josef.blumenfeld@hmhpub.com

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