Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company is a leading educational publishers in the United States and based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1832 by Henry Oscar Houghton Mifflin and George and now employs approximately 3,500 employees.

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In November 2007, the publishing house came under heavy criticism due to its enormous complicity in a number of computing and printing errors in primary school textbooks (which were mainly sold in Texas). An examination of the school board promoted 109 283 error -days, of which 86 026 error alone (about 79%) was borne by the publisher. Then, the publishing house was occupied by a penalty that is punished for any calculation or printing errors that would not be eliminated until February 2008, 5,000 euros. If the time window could be observed is not known. As in the past, mostly all errors have been corrected in time in similar cases, however, is assumed.