Kendall Hunt is an independent educational publishing house founded in 1944 as William C. Brown Publishing. The company is based in

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, and is still owned by the Brown family.

History

In 1944,

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acquired the rights to 26 book titles ranging from workbooks to laboratory manuals. Brown's company, William C. Brown Publishing, owned and operated all facets of textbook publishing, from original concept to shipping. The number of the titles in the company's catalog grew to more than 100 by 1949. By 1961, the company used the name W.C. Brown & Company, Publishers for the traditional publishing department and William C. Brown Book Company for authors with guaranteed publishing contracts. To eliminate the confusion between these two brands, the company was renamed Kendall Hunt Publishing Company in 1994.Encyclopedia Dubuque
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. In 2016, Kendall Hunt acquired the primary provider of religious education programs for Catholic parishes, schools and families,

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Main focus

Kendall Hunt publishes books for

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and religious education programs under the RCL Benziger brand. It offers more than 10,000 printed titles, including digital products under the Great River Learning brand.

Partnerships

For the K-12 market, Kendall Hunt has partnerships with Illustrative Mathematics and OpenSciEd. It also partners with Paradigm Education, the

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, the

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and the William & Mary School of Education in the area of higher education.

Authors

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* Charles Negy

References

External links

* (Kendall Hunt) *{{official website, http://www.rclbenziger.com (RCL Benziger) Educational publishing companies Christian publishing companies Book publishing companies of the United States American companies established in 1944 Publishing companies established in 1944