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((Short description|Former educational publisher))
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'''Scott Foresman''' was an [[elementary school|elementary educational]] publisher for [[PreK]] through [[Sixth grade|Grade 6]] in all subject areas. Its titles are now owned by [[Savvas Learning Company]] which formed from former Pearson Education K12 division. The old Glenview headquarters of Scott Foresman is empty as of August 2020, and Crain's Chicago Business<ref>((Cite web|date=2020-08-27|title=Owner of Scott Foresman campus in Glenview misses mortgage payment|url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-real-estate/owner-scott-foresman-campus-glenview-misses-mortgage-payment|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Crain's Chicago Business|language=en))</ref> reported that the broker hired to sell the property had missed a mortgage payment.

==Company history==
'''Scott Foresman and Company''' was founded in 1896 by [[Erastus Howard Scott]], Editor and President; [[Hugh A. Foresman]], Salesman and Secretary; and his brother, [[William Coates Foresman]], Treasurer. However, the company's origins extend back several years earlier.

===Early years===
E. H. Scott started in business in 1889, when he and C. J. Albert of the Albert Teachers Agency formed a partnership, "Albert and Scott". During this early period, the company occupied less than ((convert|100|sqft|m2)) in an office on Wabash Avenue in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. The company’s first publication was ''Bellum Helveticum'' (1889), a [[high school]] [[Latin]] [[textbook]].

In 1894, Hugh Foresman purchased Albert's interest in the publishing company and joined E. H. Scott. The following year, the Albert and Scott corporation purchased the publishing business, rights, and stock of George Sherwood and Company, which also published textbooks. Also in 1895, the firm moved its business to larger quarters at 307 S. Wabash Avenue in Chicago. On February 13, 1896, W. Coates Foresman joined the business and the corporation's name was changed to Scott, Foresman and Company. That same year, the young company purchased S. C. Griggs and Company, whose catalogue included a long list of miscellaneous books, including ''[[Robert’s Rules of Order]]''.<ref>((Cite book|title = Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised|last = Robert|first = Henry M.|publisher = Da Capo Press|year = 2011|isbn = 978-0-306-82020-5|location = Philadelphia, PA|page = xlv|edition = 11th|display-authors=etal))</ref>

When the company had been in business for only one year, it secured its first large state adoption. In 1897, the state of [[Kansas]] awarded Scott, Foresman and Company a five-year contract for eight publications. The following year, the firm moved to 623 South Wabash Avenue. In 1898, Hugh Foresman was elected Vice President. At this time, the company decided to publish books in the elementary field. In 1908 it recruited R. C. McNamara as office manager from Princeton University who ran a cooperative store at Princeton which became the University Store. The business plan of the U-Store today is essentially the same one that he devised in 1905 at age 24.

===Publisher of early readers series===
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, [[William S. Gray|William Scott Gray]] (1885–1960), director of the Curriculum Foundation Series at Scott Foresman, co-authored with William H. Elson the ''Elson Basic Readers'' (renamed the ''Elson-Gray Basic Readers'' in 1936), which Scott Foresman published in Chicago.<ref name=AmericanEducators290>((cite book|author1=Frederik Ohles|author2=Shirley M. Ohles|author3=John G. Ramsay | title =Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators | publisher =Greenwood Press | year =1997 | location =Westport, Connecticut | page=290 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=PBj5-zHEMvoC&q=%22Zerna+Sharp%22&pg=PA290 | isbn =0313291330|via=Google Books))</ref> [[Zerna Sharp]], a reading consultant and textbook editor for Scott Foresman, worked with Gray to develop what became the publisher's series of [[Dick and Jane]] readers. Sharp named and developed the characters of "Dick" and "Jane" who made their debut in the ''Elson-Gray Readers'' in 1930 and continued in a subsequent series of beginning readers after the Elson-Gray series ended in 1940.<ref name=AmericanEducators290/><ref name=Tandy>((cite web| author=Elizabeth Tandy| title =Reading With and Without Dick and Jane: The Politics of Literacy in c20 American, a Rare Book School exhibition | publisher =University of Virginia | date =June 9, 2003 | url=https://rarebookschool.org/2005/exhibitions/dickandjane.shtml | access-date = July 8, 2019))</ref> Gray wrote and [[Eleanor Campbell (illustrator)|Eleanor B. Campbell]] did most of the illustrations for the early Dick and Jane readers, while Sharp selected and edited the storylines, and supervised production of the series.<ref name=Tandy/><ref name=Gabriel>((cite news| author=Trip Gabriel | title =Oh, Jane, See How Popular We Are | newspaper =The New York Times | page=C1| date =October 3, 1996 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/03/garden/oh-jane-see-how-popular-we-are.html | access-date =July 8, 2019))</ref> 

The Dick and Jane series of primers monopolized the market for nearly four decades and reached the height of their popularity in the 1950s, when 80 percent of first-grade students in the United States were learning to read though the Dick and Jane stories. In the 1965 edition, the last of the Dick and Jane series, Scott Foresman introduced the first [[African Americans|African American]] family as characters in a first-grade reader. In the 1970s and 1980s, the series was replaced with other reading texts.<ref name=Tandy/><ref name=Gabriel/><ref name=NYT-6-1981>((cite news|author=Joseph B. Treaster | title =Zerna Sharp, 91, Dies In Indiana; Originated 'Dick and Jane' Texts | newspaper =The New York Times | pages =B6| date = June 19, 1981| url =https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/19/obituaries/zerna-sharp-91-dies-in-indiana-originated-dick-and-jane-texts.html| access-date = July 8, 2019 ))</ref>

===Relocation of its headquarters===
In 1966, Scott, Foresman moved from Chicago to a facility designed by [[Jeffery Finkle]] at a new location in [[Glenview, Cook County, Illinois|Glenview, Illinois]]; a new [[distribution center]] was opened in [[Pinola, Indiana|Pinola]], [[Indiana]]. After the spinoff of Pearson K12 to Savvas Learning Company, the Glenview location was put up for sale in 2020.  

===Acquisitions and mergers===
Scott, Foresman became a [[Public company|public corporation]] as '''SFN Companies''' and was listed on the [[New York Stock Exchange]]. [[William Morrow and Company]] and [[South-Western Publishing]] were acquired by Scott, Foresman in 1967.<ref>((Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| title = SCOTT, FORESMAN PLANS ACQUISITION; Textbook Publisher Would Add William Morrow| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2019-04-30| date = 1966-10-18| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1966/10/18/archives/scott-foresman-plans-acquisition-textbook-publisher-would-add.html))</ref><ref>((Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Dworsky| first = David| title = Option Is Purchased; Mergers Slated By Corporations| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2019-11-02| date = 1967-07-28| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1967/07/28/archives/option-is-purchased-mergers-slated-by-corporations.html))</ref> Morrow was sold to the [[Hearst Corporation]] in 1981. 

SFN was taken private in a leveraged buyout in 1985. In 1986, [[Time Inc.]] bought Scott, Foresman and [[International Thomson Organization|International Thomson]] bought South-Western.<ref>((Cite news| issn = 0099-9660| pages = 1| last = Landro| first = Laura| title = SFN to Sell Unit to Time For $520 Million --- Sale of Another Subsidiary To a Canadian Concern Is Set for $270 Million| work = Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.| location = New York, N.Y., United States, New York, N.Y.| date = 1986-10-15| id = ((ProQuest|397963634))))</ref> Around that time the comma was dropped from the company's name. Three years later, Time sold Scott Foresman to [[HarperCollins]], the book publishing subsidiary of [[News Corporation (1980–2013)|News Corporation]]. In 1996, News Corp sold the brand to [[Pearson PLC]], the global publisher and owner of ''[[Penguin Group|Penguin]]'' and the ''[[Financial Times]]''.<ref>((Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Gilpin| first = Kenneth N.| title = Pearson to Buy a Publisher From News Corp.| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2019-10-21| date = 1996-02-10| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/10/business/pearson-to-buy-a-publisher-from-news-corp.html))</ref> Then Scott Foresman, along with more than 100 other educational brands, merged to become ''Pearson'', with Scott Foresman adopting the new name, Pearson Scott Foresman. In February 2019, Pearson spun off its US-based K-12 courseware business, which was renamed Pearson K12 Learning. The newly independent K-12 publishing company later rebranded as Savvas Learning Company in May 2020.<ref>((Cite web|date=2020-05-06|title=Pearson K12 Spinoff Rebranded as 'Savvas Learning Company'|url=https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/pearson-k12-spinoff-rebranded-savvas-learning-company/|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Market Brief|language=en-US))</ref> The trademark registration for Scott Foresman is now owned by Savvas Learning Company.<ref>((Cite web |title=SCOTT FORESMAN Trademark of SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY LLC - Registration Number 1997483 - Serial Number 74566912 :: Justia Trademarks |url=http://trademarks.justia.com/745/66/scott-74566912.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=trademarks.justia.com |language=en))</ref>

===Legacy of publications===
Scott Foresman were well known for their publications of the popular Thorndike Barnhart range of school dictionaries, namely the ''Scott Foresman Advanced Dictionary'', ''Scott Foresman Intermediate Dictionary'', and ''Scott Foresman Beginning Dictionary'' also published as the ''Thorndike Barnhart Student Dictionary'', the ''Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Junior Dictionary'', and the ''Thorndike Barnhart Junior Dictionary''. These dictionaries were abandoned in the first year of Scott Foresman's acquisition by Pearson Education in 1998.

== References ==
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==External links==
((Commons category|PD-ScottForesman|Pearson Scott Foresman))
* [https://savvas.com Savvas website]


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