Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Announces Third Quarter 2016 Results Why Shares of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. Plunged Today / The company came up far short of expectations and drastically cut its full-year guidance. From Jim Metrock: Things are bad at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Today the company lost 22% of its stock value and that...
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Public gets clue to Channel One’s shrunken audience numbers. From Jim Metrock: Every four years Channel One News conducts a mock Presidential election. This year Channel One has declared Hillary Clinton the winner, but the bigger news is how few students participated in this year’s election. In 2004, Channel One claimed 1.4 million students voted....
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From Jim Metrock: In 2014 Linda Zecher wanted to acquire the remaining assets of Channel One News. People shook their heads. Channel One was a pariah among many American educators and parents. The company would not contribute much to Houghton Mifflin’s revenues and certainly not to its profits. Also surprisingly, Ms....
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Controversial Channel One News continues to promote their value-neutral philosophy. No absolutes at Channel One News. Nothing is right or wrong, nothing is acceptable or unacceptable. It all depends on what YOU think and the social context in which the decision is made. From Channel One’s Hall of Shame: Kids, do you...
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Channel One’s Guide On How To Cheat On Book Reports February 13, 1998 We were tipped off to this by a teacher in Canada. (Our friends to the north are being plagued with a Channel One clone called YNN.) Channel One published this on their official web site. It attempts to be humorous and at the same...
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Stephanie Smith is a Channel One News employee. She wrote this article that “winks” at cheating on a book report. This Channel One writer knows she is writing for children. She makes it clear that she knows many would think of watching the movie version as opposed to reading an assigned book. Excuse us, Stephanie, you are wrong. Most...
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Anyone who has followed Channel One knows it is a “value neutral” enterprise. There are no absolutes to the executives that run C1. A young person has the right to think any way they want on any issue – including cheating. Today’s article on the web site is entitled: “The Cheat Sheet – More and more students...
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