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39-807: PTDI is working with NATMI, short for North American Transportation Management Institute. PTDI allied with the Commercial Vehicle Training Association CVTA in 2020. it has also published some editions of a truck driver training book with Cengage . The Professional Truck Driver Institute is a non-profit organization that offers course certification for tractor-trailer driver training courses requiring basic and safe operations theory and behind-the-wheel training of commercial 18-wheeler tractor-trailer combinations. The certification courses are offered by both private and publicly funded schools and require written and driving tests (skills and competency testing). Upon passing exams with

78-717: A definitive agreement to sell its Harcourt U.S. Schools Education business, including Harcourt Trade Publishers, to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group. The merger was completed and the Harcourt name ceased being used separately in 2008. Harcourt Religion was sold to Our Sunday Visitor in 2009. Houghton Mifflin Company acquired Harcourt in 2007, combining the Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt names to form Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . Harcourt Trade Publishers published

117-486: A duopoly with Pearson in the market and would have used McGraw-Hill as the merged corporate name with Michael Hansen as CEO. It is estimated Cengage has 24% of the market while McGraw-Hill has 21%, Pearson, the current market leader, has about 40 percent of the market and Wiley has about 7 percent. The merger was called off on May 1, 2020. In August 2021, Cengage rebranded as Cengage Group. In addition to organic growth, Cengage has expanded through acquisitions within

156-433: A large amount of debt through the course of its initial buyout and subsequent acquisitions, and had seen declining revenue through a shrinking market for paper textbooks. Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 on July 2, 2013. Cengage Learning emerged from bankruptcy on April 1, 2014, eliminating approximately $ 4 billion of its funded debt and securing $ 1.75 billion in exit financing. Post-bankruptcy,

195-469: A professional test company. In 1997, Harcourt General acquired National Education and Steck-Vaughn. In 1998, Harcourt General acquired Morgan Kaufmann Publishers . In 1999, Harcourt General divested its retail division and shortened the publishing division name to Harcourt, Inc. In 2001, the Anglo-Dutch publishing company Reed Elsevier acquired Harcourt, Inc. Harcourt Trade Publishers

234-466: A significant percentage of PTDI-certified drivers are being educated by rehabilitative services for convicted felon's prison release programs. Since rehabilitation into the community for individuals after being released from incarceration is a concern for social services , much of the focus on placement is in preventing repeat offenses. PTDI does not discriminate, although there is a personal expense for FBI background checks, and local DOT fingerprinting when

273-456: A stock trade with Cypress Gardens . Jim Monaghan sold Circus World for stock to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich on Tuesday, May 10, 1986, at 3:50 a.m. HBJ had a new idea for the park, and closed the park at opening time that day to rebuild it into Boardwalk and Baseball . HBJ Park Group opened SeaWorld San Antonio in 1988. After an eight-year stint at Macmillan Publishing Company, Peter, William's son, joined Harcourt in 1980. In 1984, Peter

312-522: A wide range of books under a variety of imprints, including Harvest Books, Gulliver Books, Silver Whistle, Red Wagon Books, Harcourt Young Classics, Green Light Readers, Voyager Books/Libros Viajeros, Harcourt Paperbacks, Odyssey Classics, and Magic Carpet Books. Harcourt's adult books division was one of the most historic of the American literary publishers. Its backlist included Sinclair Lewis , Virginia Woolf , T. S. Eliot , Robert Penn Warren 's All

351-628: Is a non-profit charitable organization that is regularly tested by transportation officials for curricula proficiency and standards. Each candidate for licensing of the CDL classes are taught to familiarize themselves with local, regional, State, and National laws governing commercial motor freight. All states adopted standardized classes of commercial licensing under the commercial motor vehicle safety act of 1986. U.S. enactment of more stringent record keeping of candidates seeking commercial motor carrier endorsements for their CDL may come from statistics showing

390-682: The Department of Transportation , both State, and Federally regulated in the US, the successful candidate received a Class-A CDL, ( Commercial Driver's License ), formerly known as a Chauffeur's license. In the United States, federal legislation was enacted to consolidate record keeping of the many different State's Department of Transportation. During this time, debates continued on the need for an organization capable of training administration for commercial motor carrier safety. Created in 1986, PTDI

429-1057: The Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group based in Stuttgart , and it operated as a subsidiary publishing under its original name, Henry Holt and Company . Harcourt Achieve, Professional and Trade – publishers of supplemental and alternative core educational materials for pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 schools materials for adult education, school libraries and teacher professional development; and adult and children's trade books. Includes Harcourt Achieve, Greenwood/Heinemann , Global Library, Classroom Connect, Rigby, Steck-Vaughn, Harcourt Religion Publishers and Harcourt Trade Publishers. Harcourt Assessment - develops tests and resources for educational, psychological, speech, and occupational therapy assessment, as well as human resource selection and hiring ( talent assessment ). Tests include WISC , WAIS , WPPSI , Raven's Progressive Matrices and Versant . Harcourt Education International – publisher for

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468-622: The Thomson Corporation , with an estimated value of up to US$ 5 billion. The company was bought by a private equity consortium consisting of Apax Partners and OMERS Capital Partners for US$ 7.75 billion, and the name was changed to Cengage Learning on July 24, 2007. In 2007, Cengage Learning sold Peterson's to Nelnet . In 2011, Cengage Learning acquired the National Geographic Society's school publishing unit, and combined this school business with

507-413: The 1921 to 1960 name "Harcourt, Brace & Company" to its publishing division as Harcourt Brace (no comma). At the end of the year it divested its cinema division. In 1994, Harcourt General acquired the religious imprint Brown-ROA from William C. Brown Company, a division of Times Mirror Company . It was renamed Harcourt Religion in 1999. In 1995, Harcourt General acquired Assessment Systems, Inc.,

546-666: The Global ELT business to create and launch the National Geographic Learning brand. The global brand combined the former Cengage Learning ELT and National Geographic School Publishing imprints and sub-brands under one unified identity. In September 2013, David Shaffer retired as chairman of the company. He had previously been executive vice president of The Thomson Corporation from 2005 to 2006, and then President and CEO of both Thomson Publishing International and Thomson Learning. The company had acquired

585-509: The King's Men , and Alice Walker 's The Color Purple . Harcourt also published high-quality literature in translation by acquiring European writers such as Günter Grass (Germany) and Umberto Eco (Italy). Harcourt Children's Books published books for children of all ages, including interactive books for toddlers, picture books for young children, science fiction and fantasy novels for preteen and teens, as well as historical fiction. The house

624-629: The Metropolitan Achievement Test (1932) and the Otis Mental Ability Test (1936). Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace were friends at Columbia College of Columbia University in New York, from which they both graduated in 1904. The two worked for Henry Holt and Company before founding their own publishing company in 1919, Harcourt, Brace & Howe , along with editor Will David Howe . After Howe left

663-558: The UK primary, secondary and vocational (further education) markets as well as English-medium schools worldwide. Also covers the Australasian primary, secondary and further education sectors. Its imprints include Heinemann , Rigby, Ginn, Payne-Gallway and Raintree. HBJ Publications – business magazine and school supplies supplier that grew from sixteen magazines in the 1970s to more than one hundred by 1987. Executives from Harcourt bought

702-544: The candidate wants certain endorsements with their CDL. PTDI offers intensive safety indoctrination for all licensing candidates. Cengage Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12 , professional, and library markets. It operates in more than 20 countries around the world. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, and has some 5,000 employees worldwide across nearly 38 countries. It

741-614: The company 14 out of 57 publishers worldwide, a decline of three slots from the previous year. The list includes both trade and educational publishers. Harcourt (publisher) Harcourt ( / ˈ h ɑːr k ɔːr t / ) was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children. The company was last based in San Diego, California , with editorial/sales/marketing/rights offices in New York City and Orlando, Florida , and

780-718: The company decided to focus on developing digital study guides and other educational supplements, as well as hard-copy textbooks. The company moved its headquarters from Stamford, Connecticut , to Boston. In January 2015, they announced expansion of their LearnLaunch Accelerator program, which provides seed funding and intensive coaching to promising startups, to the University of Chihuahua in Mexico. In November 2016, Cengage Learning rebranded as simply Cengage. In May 2019, Cengage announced its potential merger with another major publisher, McGraw-Hill Education , thereby creating

819-484: The company diversified into non-publishing businesses such as insurance and business consulting. It also bought several theme parks—including SeaWorld , which it acquired in 1976 for $ 46 million. Harcourt also published mass-market paperback books with Pyramid Books , which it bought out in 1974 and renamed Jove Books. It sold this section to the Putnam Berkley Group in 1979. In 1985, HBJ merged in

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858-534: The company in 1921, the partners changed the name to Harcourt, Brace & Company. They published the works of a number of writers who became internationally renowned, including Walter Lippmann , Sinclair Lewis , Virginia Woolf , T. S. Eliot , James Thurber , George Orwell , Valentine Davies and Robert Penn Warren . Firms acquired by Harcourt, Brace include Brewer, Warren and Putnam; and Reynal & Hitchcock . Harcourt, Brace & World only existed between 1960 and 1970. The name Harcourt, Brace & World

897-410: The company's entire digital higher education catalog by the semester or year, rather than buying individual textbooks. This service became available during summer 2018, and was reported to be "in line with expectations" with its initial sales goal. The University of Missouri is the first university to offer this plan to all students, effective January 2019. International Thomson Publishing entered

936-403: The company, replacing Ralph D. Caulo, who left after the theme park sale. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich was acquired in 1991 for more than $ 1.5 billion by General Cinema Corporation , a diversified company that operated a national chain of movie theaters, and retailers such as Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman . In 1993 General Cinema Corporation renamed itself Harcourt General and restored

975-615: The following divisions: Elsevier (science and medical), LexisNexis (legal), Harcourt Education (education), and Reed Business (business). On February 15, 2007, Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell its education arm, Harcourt Education, of which Harcourt Trade Publishers was a part. According to Reed Chief Executive Crispin Davis, "This is essentially a strategic decision that we want to focus more sharply on our three existing businesses ... with better growth rates." On July 17, 2007, Reed Elsevier announced that it had entered into

1014-523: The largest middle and secondary school discipline. Holt also publishes in science, mathematics, social studies, and world languages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich acquired the educational arm of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Saunders , and the Dryden Press in 1985 from CBS , and it retained the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name. CBS also sold in 1985 the other arm of the company, the retail publishing arm, to

1053-507: The name intact on all of its books under that name as part of HMH. In 2007 the U.S. Schools Education and Trade Publishing parts of Harcourt Education were sold by Reed Elsevier to Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group . Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International were acquired by Pearson , the international education and information company, in January 2008. The first-created component of what would eventually become Harcourt

1092-479: The position of Harcourt Brace because World Book was an established elementary textbook publisher and test publisher. In 1968, Harcourt, Brace & World entered the trade magazine business by acquiring Ojibway Press. In 1969, Harcourt acquired Academic Press . In 1970, the company was known as Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ), with William Jovanovich as chairman. That same year, the company acquired The Psychological Corporation . Under Jovanovich's leadership,

1131-502: The publishing business by buying Wadsworth Publishing in 1979. In 1981 International Thomson purchased the publishing operations of Litton Industries , including Van Nostrand Reinhold and Delmar. International Thomson acquired reference publisher Gale Research in 1985. International Thomson acquired South-Western Publishing from SFN in 1986. In 1992, Thomson acquired Course Technology. In 1995, Thomson acquired educational reference publisher Peterson's . In 1997, Van Nostrand Reinhold

1170-431: The publishing industry. Notable acquisitions include: The company's product lines include 4LTR Press, Aplia, Cengage Learning PTR, Chilton , Education To Go, Gale , Milady, MindTap, and National Geographic Learning. Since 2015, South-Western products have been branded as Cengage Learning. Cengage Unlimited, a SaaS solution, launched on August 1, 2018. In 2016, based on its 2015 revenues, Publishers Weekly ranked

1209-894: Was a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK and ENL), a publisher and information provider operating in four global industry sectors: science and medical, legal, education, and business. As part of the deal, Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt's higher education division, and the NETglobal (formerly National Education Training), Assessment Systems, Inc (ASI), and Drake Beam Morin businesses to Thomson Corporation . Several parts of Harcourt (Academic Press, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, and Saunders) were transferred to Elsevier and several parts of Elsevier (including Greenwood Publishing Group ) were transferred to Harcourt Education. In 2004, Harcourt acquired Saxon Publishers, publishers of Saxon math materials. Reed Elsevier then comprised

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1248-514: Was best known for the intelligence tests he developed for the U.S. Army. Millions of World War I draftees took Otis tests . World Book Company became the first publisher of group-administered tests measuring mental ability when it published Otis's Group Intelligence Scale in 1918. Otis became a World Book employee in 1921. By 1960, World Book had a portfolio of educational tests, including the Stanford Achievement Test (1923),

1287-449: Was headquartered at its Stamford, Connecticut, office until April 2014. Gale is Cengage's library reference arm and specializes in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The company creates and maintains databases that are published online, in print, as e-books and in microform. On December 5, 2017, Cengage announced Cengage Unlimited, a subscription service that allows students to pay for access to

1326-505: Was known at different stages in its history as Harcourt Brace, & Co. and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich . From 1919 to 1982, it was based in New York City. Houghton Mifflin acquired Harcourt in 2007. It incorporated the Harcourt name to form Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . As of 2012, all Harcourt books that have been re-released are under the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt name. The Harcourt Children's Books division left

1365-594: Was named head of the company's $ 400 million college textbook and professional division. In 1987, days after a failed attempted takeover of HBJ, British publisher Robert Maxwell sued to stop the company from carrying out a $ 3 billion recapitalization plan. Eventually, the company divested its trade magazines to the buyout firm Kidder, Peabody & Co. in 1987. The company divested its theme park division in 1989 to Busch Entertainment for $ 1.1 billion, when they expected $ 1.5 billion, to meet its large debt. In December 1989, Peter Jovanovich became chief executive officer of

1404-430: Was sold to John Wiley & Sons . In 2000, Thomson Learning was created out of a restructuring of International Thomson Publishing. Later that year Thomson acquired the higher education title of Harcourt from Reed Elsevier , and the test prep publisher Arco from IDG Books . In 2002, Wadsworth acquired F.E. Peacock Publishers. It was announced on October 25, 2006, that Thomson Learning would be offered for sale by

1443-633: Was the World Book Company (unrelated to the Chicago -based World Book, Inc. publisher of reference works), which opened its first office in Manila in 1905 and published English-language educational materials for schools in the Philippines . The company later moved to New York City, where it became a test publisher. Much of the company's success was based on the work of Arthur S. Otis . He

1482-406: Was the original publisher of such classics as Mary Poppins , The Borrowers , and Half Magic . Harcourt School Publishers – U.S. elementary (pre-K–6) publisher with particular strength in the four major subject areas of science, reading, math and social studies. Holt, Rinehart and Winston – U.S. secondary (grades 6–12) publisher with a leading position in literature and language arts,

1521-458: Was used on books that were copyrighted as early as 1931, if not before. By 1960, Harcourt Brace led the market in high school textbook publishing, but had little presence in the elementary school market. That year, William Jovanovich , who had become president of the company in 1954, took the company public and merged Harcourt Brace & Company with World Book Company to create Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. This strategic action improved

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