Scholastic Corporation
Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Products are distributed via retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and book fairs. Clifford the Big Red Dog, a character created by Norman Bridwell in 1963, is the mascot of Scholastic.
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Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Products are distributed via retail and online sales and through schools via reading clubs and book fairs. Clifford the Big Red Dog, a character created by Norman Bridwell in 1963, is the mascot of Scholastic.
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Company history
Company history
Scholastic was founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson near Pittsburgh as a publisher of youth magazines. Its first publication, The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic, covered high school sports and social activities. The four-page magazine debuted on October 22, 1920, and was distributed in 50 high schools. More publications followed under Scholastic Magazines. In 1948, Scholastic entered the book club business. The company incorporated its first international subsidiary, Scholastic Canada, in 1957. During the 1960s, it established other international publishing locations in England (1964), New Zealand (1964), and Sydney (1968), while also entering the book publishing business. In the 1970s, Scholastic created its TV entertainment division. From 1975 until his death in 2021, Richard Robinson, son of the corporation's founder, served as CEO and president. Scholastic began trading on the Nasdaq on May 12, 1987. In 2000, Scholastic purchased Grolier for $400 million, and it expanded into video collections the following year. Scholastic developed FASTT Math with Tom Snyder in 2005 to improve student proficiency in multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction through a series of games and memorization quizzes gauging the student's progress. Partnering with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2011, Scholastic developed READ 180 to help students with their reading skills. In February 2012, Scholastic acquired Weekly Reader Publishing from the Reader's Digest Association. In July 2012, Scholastic announced plans to discontinue separate issues of Weekly Reader after more than a century of publication, co-branding the magazines as Scholastic News/Weekly Reader. In 2013, the company developed System 44 with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to further support reading development. Scholastic sold READ 180 to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2015. In December 2015, it launched the Scholastic Reads Podcasts. On October 22, 2020, Scholastic celebrated its 100th anniversary.
Company structure
Company structure
Scholastic Corporation has three business segments: Children's Book Publishing and Distribution, Education Solutions, and International. Scholastic holds the perpetual US publishing rights to Harry Potter and The Hunger Games. It is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, alongside print and digital educational materials for pre-K through grade 12. Scholastic is known for its school book clubs and book fairs, classroom magazines such as Scholastic News and Science World, and popular book series including Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, Horrible Histories, Captain Underpants, Animorphs, The Baby-Sitters Club, and I Spy. Scholastic also publishes instructional reading and writing programs, and offers professional learning and consultancy services for school improvement. Clifford the Big Red Dog is the company's official mascot.
Marketing initiatives
Marketing initiatives
Founded in 1923 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, is a competition which recognizes talented young artists and writers from across the United States.
Imprints and corporate divisions
Imprints and corporate divisions
Trade Publishing Imprints include: Arthur A. Levine Books, which specializes in fiction and non-fiction books for young readers. The imprint was founded at Scholastic in 1996 by Arthur Levine in New York City. The first book published by Arthur A. Levine Books was When She Was Good by Norma Fox Mazer in autumn 1997. The imprint is most notable as the publisher of the American editions of the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. In March 2019, Levine left Scholastic to form his own new publisher. Scholastic retained Levine's back catalogue. The Chicken House Graphix, a graphic novel imprint started in 2005. Klutz Press Orchard Books Scholastic Australia – made up of Koala Books, Margaret Hamilton Books, Omnibus Books, and Scholastic Corporation. Children's Press (spelled "Childrens Press" from 1945 to 1996) – founded in 1945, and formerly headquartered in 1224 West Van Buren Street, Chicago until it was acquired by Grolier in 1995 moving its operations to New York City and Danbury, Connecticut. It became part of Scholastic Corporation in 2000. It published various publications such as the Rookie Read-About series, A True Book series, Young People's series (Young People's Science Encyclopedia (underwent 10 editions during its 31-year printing from 1962 to 1993 which are 1962, 1964–1966, 1970, 1978, 1982, 1987, 1991, and 1993), and New Frontiers in Science and Young People's Science Dictionary (1964) by the staff of National College of Education (now National Louis University), Young People's World (1966), Young People's Illustrated Encyclopedia (1972), and Young People's Animal Encyclopedia (1980) by Maurice Burton), and the Getting to Know series, and it also has a secondary imprint, Franklin Watts. 9 Story Media Group – founded in 2002, is a media company in Canada. In March 2024, Scholastic announced it would acquire complete economic interest and minority voting rights in the company for $186 million; the transaction closed on June 21, 2024. Scholastic Reference publishes reference books.
Scholastic Entertainment
Scholastic Entertainment
Scholastic Entertainment (formerly Scholastic Productions and Scholastic Media) is a corporate division led by Deborah Forte since 1995. It covers "all forms of media and consumer products, and is comprised of four main groups – Productions, Marketing & Consumer Products, Interactive, and Audio." Weston Woods is its production studio, acquired in 1996, as was Soup2Nuts (best known for Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Science Court, Home Movies and WordGirl) from 2001 to 2015 before shutting down.Scholastic has produced audiobooks like the Caldecott/Newbery Collection; Scholastic has been involved with several television programs and feature films based on its books. In 1985, Scholastic Productions teamed with Karl-Lorimar Home Video, a home video unit of Lorimar Productions, to form the line Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video, whereas Scholastic would produce made-for-video programming, and became a best-selling video line for kids, and the pact expired for two years, whereas Scholastic would team up with leading independent family video distributor and a label of International Video Entertainment, Family Home Entertainment, to distribute made-for-video programming for the next three years.
Streaming service
Streaming service
On September 17, 2025, Scholastic launched a free streaming app called Scholastic TV, which contains Clifford the Big Red Dog, The Magic School Bus and other television series created by Scholastic Entertainment. The app is catered towards children aged 2 to 12. It is available on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, iOS, and Android.
Book fairs
Book fairs
Scholastic Book Fairs began in 1981. Scholastic provides book fair products to schools, which then conduct the book fairs. Schools can elect to receive books, supplies and equipment or a portion of the proceeds from the book fair. In the United States, during fiscal 2024, revenue from the book fairs channel ($541.6 million) accounted for more than half of the company's revenue in the "Total Children's Book Publishing and Distribution" segment ($955.2 million), and schools earned over $200 million in proceeds in cash and incentive credits. In October 2023, Scholastic created a separate category for books dealing with "race, LGBTQ and other issues related to diversity", allowing schools to opt out of carrying these types of books. Scholastic defended the move, citing legislation in multiple states seeking to ban books dealing with LGBTQ issues or race. After public backlash from educators, authors, and free speech advocacy groups, Scholastic reversed course, saying the new category will be discontinued, writing: "It is unsettling that the current divisive landscape in the U.S. is creating an environment that could deny any child access to books, or that teachers could be penalized for creating access to all stories for their students". Scholastic Book Fairs have been criticized for spurring unnecessary purchases, highlighting economic inequality among students, and disruption of school activities and facilities.
Book clubs
Book clubs
Scholastic book clubs are offered at schools in many countries. Typically, teachers administer the program to the students in their own classes, but in some cases, the program is administered by a central contact for the entire school. Within Scholastic, Reading Clubs is a separate unit (compared to, e.g., Education). Reading clubs are arranged by age/grade. Book club operators receive "Classroom Funds" redeemable only for Scholastic Corporation products.
2025 data breach
2025 data breach
In January 2025, claims of a data breach affecting Scholastic came from a "furry" hacker identified as "Parasocial." The breach affected an estimated 8 million customers consisting of names, email addresses, phone numbers, and home addresses. The breach was provided to Have I Been Pwned? in an effort to inform customers.
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- 2.Annual Report 2019.
- 3.Neary, Lynn. How Scholastic Sells Literacy to Generations Of New Readers. NPR. 2013-07-15.
- 4.Scholastic Magazines enjoys golden jubilee. Jefferson City Post-Tribune. 4. October 20, 1970.
- 5.Our History. scholastic.com.
- 6.Scholastic Canada Ltd. Scholastic Canada.
- 7.United States Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K Annual Report pursuant to section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities exchange Act of 1934, For the fiscal year ended May 31, 2002, Commission File No. 0-19860: Scholastic Corporation. 6, 7. 2002.
- 8.Scholastic.com. Richard Robinson.
- 9."French Plan to Sell Grolier", Publishers Weekly, 11/29/1999
- 10."Scholastic to Acquire Grolier", press release, Scholastic Inc., 4/13/2000.
- 11.Grodd, Wolfgang. ABSTRACT MATHEMATICAL COGNITION EDITED BY : Philippe Chassy and Wolfgang Grodd PUBLISHED IN : Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
- 12.Tom Snyder Products Announces FASTT Math. PR Newswire. April 7, 2005.
- 13.READ 180: Evidence and Efficacy for Students with Disabilities and English Learners. www.hmhco.com.
- 14.Bloomberg. Scholastic to End Independent Publication of Weekly Reader. 2012-07-23.
- 15.Scholastic profit rises on Hunger Games sales. Reuters. 2012-07-19.
- 16.Reaney, Patricia. J.K. Rowling launches Harry Potter book club online. Reuters. 2012-07-31.
- 17.Global Publishing Leaders 2018: Scholastic. Publishers Weekly.
- 18.Croot, James. Clifford the Big Red Dog: Doggone it - this predictable canine caper disappoints. Stuff. December 29, 2021.
- 19.Williams, John. Richard Robinson of Scholastic Honored for Lifetime of Work in Children's Publishing. The New York Times. 2017-09-20. 0362-4331.
- 20.Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. www.promotionandarts.org.
- 21.Arthur A. Levine Books!. Welcome To Arthur A. Levine Books!.
- 22.Adler, Margot. Potter Publisher Predicted Literary Magic. NPR. 2007-07-14.
- 23.Thompson, Bob. The Wizardly Editor Who Caught the Golden Snitch. The Washington Post. 2007-07-11.
- 24.Whyte, Alexandra. Harry Potter publisher leaves Scholastic. Kidscreen. March 13, 2019.
- 25.Graphix.
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- 28.Acquisition activity in the education market heats up. www.allbusiness.com. 2000-05-01.
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- 30.Vlessing, Etan. Scholastic to Invest $186M in Animation Studio 9 Story Media. The Hollywood Reporter. 2024-03-12.
- 31.Scholastic Closes Investment in 9 Story Media Group, Award-Winning Creator, Producer and Distributor of Premium Children's Content. 9 Story Media Group. 21 June 2024.
- 32.Hobbs, Nancy. Under The Covers; Reviews Of Children's Books. The Salt Lake Tribune. December 27, 1996.
- 33.Bookman, Julie. Books for Kids: 'Wow' facts give young historians frame of reference – Family Pages. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. September 11, 1999.
- 34.Scholastic Corporation. Welcome. About Scholastic.
- 35.Scholastic Corporation. Media & The Mission. About Scholastic.
- 36.Scholastic Corporation. Weston Woods Caldecott/Newbery Collection. English language teaching: listening practice.
- 37.Kidvid Forces Link To Attack Market. Variety. 47. 1987-08-19.
- 38.Scholastic Launches First Branded Streaming App Featuring Clifford, Goosebumps, and More. www.scholastic.com.
- 39.2023 Annual Report, page 9. investor.scholastic.com.
- 40.2024 Annual Report, page 54. investor.scholastic.com.
- 41.2024 Annual Report, page 14. investor.scholastic.com.
- 42.Picchi, Aimee. Scholastic book fairs, a staple at U.S. schools, accused of excluding diverse books. CBS News. 17 October 2023.
- 43.Treisman, Rachel. Scholastic backtracks, saying it will stop separating diverse books for fairs in 2024. NPR. 25 October 2023.
- 44.Horton, Adrian. Scholastic reverses decision to separate books on race, gender and sexuality. The Guardian. 25 October 2023.
- 45.Bogan, Kelsey. Book Fairs & Their Equity Issues. 26 October 2023.
- 46.Kennedy, Meghan. Scholastic Book Fairs: how the inequalities outweigh nostalgia. 6 December 2021.
- 47.Our Businesses. scholastic.com.
- 48.Terms & Services. scholastic.com.
- 49.Raise Classroom Funds. scholastic.com.
- 50.Salesforce. FAQ: Raising Money for Your Classroom. Scholastic Corporation.
- 51.Thalen, Mikael. EXCLUSIVE: Scholastic, education giant and 'Harry Potter' publisher, breached by 'furry' hacker. The Daily Dot. 2025-01-10.
- 52.Have I Been Pwned: Pwned websites. haveibeenpwned.com.
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