The Harcourt Schools US K-12 business significantly outperformed its market, with its products winning the largest share of new state adoption revenues in 2002. Increased investment continues to be made in new publishing and electronic learning.

Harcourt Schools Elementary Science programme in the US epitomises the group’s strategy of delivering the market leading curriculum text in every major subject. The programme is a clear market leader, capturing over 70 per cent of the state adoption market for science in 2002, and selling over 500,000 books in open territory states. Its success is the direct result of a process which involves the collaboration of teachers, pupils, editors and researchers to produce a learning resource ideally suited to the pedagogy of the US classroom and the demands of the education system.