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| Parent company | McGraw-Hill Education |
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| Founded | 1938 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Official website | www |
Science Research Associates (SRA), founded by Lyle Spencer in 1938,[1] was aChicago-based publisher of educational materials and schoolroom reading comprehension products.[2] The company was acquired byMcGraw-Hill Education in the early 2000s.
The company was founded in 1938.[3] In 1950,[4] Donald Henry Parker[5][6][1] developed his multilevel reading product. In 1955, Parker proposed the product to Science Research Associates.[1]
In 1957, the SRA Reading Laboratory Kit[7] was first published, for individualized classroom instruction, that they translated to mathematics, science, and social studies[2] commonly called SRA cards.[8] The labs were large boxes filled with color-coded cardboard sheets, and each sheet included a reading exercise for students.[9]
IBM purchased SRA in 1964.[10] By this time, the company's line of primary- and secondary-school products had increased. Among the new products was theNational Educational Development Tests, a series ofstandardized tests sold to schools as a method of testing students' likelihood of qualifying for college. SRA produced bothIBM PC andApple II software in the 1980s.[11]Maxwell Communication Corporation bought SRA in 1988, and it became part ofMacmillan/McGraw-Hill in 1989.[12] Maxwell Communications collapsed, and McGraw-Hill acquired full ownership of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill and SRA.
Since the 1960s, SRA has publishedDirect Instruction programs, also known asDISTAR (Direct Instruction System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading). These includeLanguage for Learning, Reading Mastery, Reasoning and Writing, Connecting Math Concepts, andCorrective Reading. SRA acquiredEveryday Mathematics and purchasedOpen Court Reading in the 1990s.
In 1992, SRA joined with Gateway Educational Products, Ltd., so they can released theRead to Learn program, known as theSRA Reading Power program by Don H. Parker. We recommend that they should complete theLearn to Read product, known as theHooked on Phonics program, before moving on to theSRA Reading Power program.
In the early 2000s, the company was purchased byMcGraw-Hill Education. The brand name and products were made part of the PreK-12 business of the company. TheImagine It! reading program was launched in 2007. McGraw-Hill Education also competes as a publisher of mathematics and science materials with programs such asReal Math, Number Worlds andSnapshots Video Science.
Copyright © 2003 SRA / McGraw-Hill.
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