Silver Burdett was an American primary education

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publishing imprint owned by

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, which is a division of media conglomerate

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History

Silver Burdett first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company, Silver & Company. In 1962, it was acquired by Time Inc., and it became the distributor of

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and

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. In 1965 it became the first division of the General Learning Corporation, a multi-million dollar collaboration between Time Inc. and

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purchased it in 1986, and merged it with Ginn & Company, a leading el-hi (

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and

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) textbook publisher - which formed the imprint Silver Burdett & Ginn. In 1998,

acquired Simon & Schuster's educational businesses (which included Silver Burdett & Ginn) from S&S parent Viacom, and created Pearson Education.

Termination

Pearson closed Silver Burdett in 1999.

References

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