13 Facts About McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill publishes reference and trade publications for the medical, business, and engineering professions.

McGraw-Hill continued to add further publications, eventually establishing The McGraw Publishing Company in 1899.

In 1986, McGraw-Hill bought out competitor The Economy Company, then the nation's largest publisher of educational material.

In 1989, McGraw-Hill formed a joint partnership with Robert Maxwell, forming America's second largest textbook publisher.

In 2004, The McGraw-Hill Companies sold its children's publishing unit to School Specialty.

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In 2007, The McGraw-Hill Companies launched an online student study network, GradeGuru.

On November 26, 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies announced it was selling its entire education division to Apollo Global Management for $2.

On May 11, 2017, McGraw-Hill Education announced the sale of the business holdings of McGraw-Hill Ryerson to Canadian educational publisher Nelson.

On May 1, 2019, McGraw-Hill Education announced an agreement to merge with Cengage.

In 2013, McGraw-Hill Education acquired the entirety of shares in Tata McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited, the company's long-existing joint venture with Tata Group in India.

In 1980, McGraw-Hill paid the African American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin a $200, 000 advance for his unfinished book Remember This House, a memoir of his personal recollections of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

In October 2015, McGraw-Hill Education was accused of whitewashing history after it published a caption in a geography textbook referring to American slaves as "workers".

McGraw-Hill quickly apologized, updated the digital version of the materials, and offered schools replacement texts at no charge.