McGraw Hill

McGraw Hill, also known as McGraw-Hill Education, is an American publishing company known for its publications of textbooks, software, and services for education. It is one of the leading educational companies of the world. 
== Background ==
=== Origins ===
McGraw Hill's founding dates back to 1888 when the American Journal of Railway Appliances was purchased by James McGraw. McGraw would stack on more purchases and eventually the McGraw Publishing Company was formed in 1899. John Hill would make purchases in trade, and he too would also form a company called the Hill Publishing Company in 1902. In 1909, the two decided to incorporate their companies which would form the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1909. In 1917, the two companies would completely merge and form the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in 1917.
=== Present ===
In its current form, The McGraw-Hill Companies sold McGraw Hill (as McGraw-Hill Education) to in 2012. After McGraw-Hill Companies changed their name to McGraw Hill Financial that same year and then to what is known today as in 2016, McGraw Hill became (and still is) the only remaining remnant of the "McGraw Hill" name. The company is now currently owned by after Apollo Global sold it in 2021. 
== YouTube history ==
=== McGrawHillPro ===
==== The Essential Wooden ====
McGraw's YouTube debut was on June 2, 2008, as McGrawHillPro, the division centered around professional learning. The first video "The Essential Wooden, by John Wooden, Steve Jamison" was posted on the same day. The video features the book about "A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership" as well as its authors and Steve Jamison. Wooden, a former high school and college basketball coach, explains one of the essentials of great leadership and even talks about , also a basketball coach who had no respect for Wooden and even accused him of "dirty recruiting" while he coached the to 10 out of its 11 NCAA championships, and , a basketball player known for his time in the NBA playing for The Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics, who played under Wooden's coaching for the UCLA Bruins during the team's championship run.
==== Other content ====
Other videos contain author interviews such as the "Coffee Break" series, webinars, speeches, presentations, insights, "sailing knots" which teaches viewers how to tie certain things, and more. 
=== McGraw Hill PreK-12 ===
This channel would be created on September 6, 2009, and it focuses on education for grades Pre-Kindergarten to the 12th grade, but "Discussing the New Emphasis on Complex Text for Common Core" was the channel's first video on September 22, 2011. Dr. Timothy Shanahan discusses ELA Common state standards (at the time) for this video. From that point, the channel dives into not only student, but teacher strategies to help both parties of a traditional classroom. In around 2013, the channel started posting educational cartoons to assist students on reading skills. Recent content has taught viewers how to do certain things on McGraw Hill or ALEKS (a program currently owned by McGraw Hill) applications or websites such as creating an account. 
=== McGraw Hill ===
The central channel of McGraw Hill was created on April 5, 2010. It took about 7 years for the first video "Thank You, Teachers!" to be posted which happened on May 9, 2017, which was "National Teacher Day" for 2017. It shows what looks to be teachers thanking their teachers when they were students. However, parents weren't left out of the equation as the first of the featured thanked his dad who was professor that he didn't have as a teacher traditionally or formally, and the last who did have their dad as a teacher. The channel went through a 4-year inactivity period until July 20, 2020, when "Accessibility at McGraw Hill: Helping All Learners Succeed" was posted which explained what McGraw Hill was "taking action" in. With a few videos then and there and as the channel with the lowest video count out of the others, the McGraw Hill channel went on to thank educators more, introduce their leadership of the company, create overviews of their software, and to also introduce their yearly "Pathfinder Award" winners, an award founded in 2022.
=== McGraw Hill Higher Education ===
The channel that highlights college education was created on February 7, 2011. Posted on September 5, 2013, its first video "Use 3D Animations for your students to learn Biology" gives an experience of using 3D animation that has "advantages over other 3D animations that you have ever seen." The channel digs deeper into more sciences such as Anatomy and Physiology. Like the other channels, Higher Education has its fair share of overviews and tutorials on using programs like the aforementioned ALEKS, insights, introductions to teaching and learning, and a few animations such as one about marketing. One difference that does stand out is the channel's video game side in Quest: Journey Through the Lifespan which is a game about human development within a lifespan. The couple of videos about the game teach you how to do or access certain things. However, the game can only be accessed and played if someone of school authority such as a principal or dean sign up their institution to a Developmental Psychology program with McGraw Hill.
=== Sharpen - College Study App ===
Developed and owned by McGraw Hill, Sharpen's channel was created on June 30, 2022. Sharpen (stylized as sharpen.) is an app made for the purpose of helping college students' study for assignments, homework, and exams. Its first video "Sharpen 101 - Studying Straight to the Point" serves as an introduction to the app on the channel. The channel then goes on to teach subjects like science and finance.
== Controversy ==
=== James Baldwin Lawsuit ===
African American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin was paid $200,000 in advance by McGraw Hill in 1980 to finish his manuscript Remember This House. This was supposed to be a personal account from Baldwin as he expresses his feelings on race relations in America as well as the assassinations of fellow activists , , and Unfortunately, the manuscript went and remained unfinished after Baldwin's death on December 1, 1987. In response to this, McGraw Hill would sue his estate in an attempt to get the $200,000 they paid for him to finish the manuscript. If successful, this would've caused the eviction of Baldwin's mother from her home according to the family. The lawsuit was dropped in 1990 after McGraw Hill was convinced by to do so.
=== Whitewashing allegations ===
In 2015, McGraw Hill was accused of whitewashing history when a caption in their textbooks was noticed to have described enslaved African Americans as "workers" by a student who then told their mom that would file a complaint. McGraw Hill apologized for this and in return, revised the digital versions, and offered free replacements of the physical versions. 
=== Price gouging allegations ===
Publishers including McGraw Hill have been accused of price gouging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Used as an example of this by libraries, one of McGraw Hill's physical textbooks cost around $66 while its e-book version cost around $528.
== Trivia ==
*According to an overview of McGraw Hill, their products are sold in over 80 languages and across over 100 countries.
== References ==
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