New Mountain Learning

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New Mountain Learning
New Mountain Learning (publishing company) logo.png
Founded2012 (2012)
Successor Carnegie Learning
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters location St. Paul, Minnesota
Key peopleEric Cantor (Chairman and CEO)
Peter Esposito (Group President)
Mick Demakos (CDO)
Publication types books, magazines
Imprints EMC Publishing, Paradigm Publishing, JIST Publishing
Official website newmountainlearning.com

New Mountain Learning, LLC was a privately held [1] publishing company founded in 2012 [2] and headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. The company published educational textbooks and software, including supplements and assessment tools for PreK-12, post-secondary, workforce development, and religious education fields.

Contents

In 2018, New Mountain Learning was acquired by private equity firm CIP Capital from The Wicks Group, who had acquired and merged the New Mountain divisions. [3] Later in 2018, CIP acquired Carnegie Learning and merged New Mountain into Carnegie Learning. [4]

Corporate organization

New Mountain Learning consisted of five divisions:

PreK-12

EMC Publishing was founded in 1954, [5] and develops and produces PreK-12 textbook programs in world languages, [2] business education, literature and language arts, and social studies with supplementary and multimedia materials. [6]

Post-secondary

Paradigm Publishing specializes in post-secondary publishing, offering textbook programs in computer technology, health careers, biotechnology, accounting, business technology, distance learning, and career management with supplementary and multimedia materials. [6] [7]

Workforce development

JIST Publishing (Job Information, Seeking and Training), [8] has award-winning [9] [10] materials on job-search, career exploration, occupational information, life skills, and character education. Founded by James Michael Farr [11] in 1981 [12] and acquired by EMC in 2007. [13]

Applications and programming

Lawrenceville Press is a publisher of computer application and programming textbooks. [14] Founded in 1981 [14] and acquired by EMC in 2007. [15]

Religious education

CFM Publishing, the religious education division of New Mountain Learning [16] consists of two publishers:

Products

Snap (stylized as "SNAP" [21] ) consists of the following web-based training and assessment learning management software: Keyboarding Online Labs; Snap 2013 (for Microsoft Office 2013) Snap 2010 (for Microsoft Office 2010); Snap 2007 (for Microsoft Office 2007); and Snap 2003 (for Microsoft Office 2003).

EMC Languages is a language program scheduled for release in 2014. [22] According to their website, it is "a dynamic learning environment designed to drive educator effectiveness and student fluency in K-12 and post-secondary world language classrooms." [23] A collaboration with the University of Minnesota, students will use video platforms to demonstrate their skills through assessments and discussions via webcam. [22]

Users

Below is a selection of academic institutions that used New Mountain Learning materials:

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