COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 6, 2025--
McGraw Hill (NYSE: MH), a leading global provider of education solutions for preK-12, higher education and professional learning, announced today the launch of Emerge!, its new flagship kindergarten through 5th grade core English Language Arts curriculum that is deeply rooted in the Science of Literacy and delivers a dynamic personalized learning experience for both educators and learners.
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As the body of evidence grows in support of implementing reading instruction that is aligned with the science of how children learn to read, Emerge! draws on extensive research and insights from 16 renowned literacy experts and more than 6,400 teachers, students and administrators to provide a next-level approach to science-based reading instruction.
“ Emerge! ushers in a new era of literacy curriculum and instruction – one built for the complex realities of the modern classroom,” said Sean Ryan, President of McGraw Hill’s School Group. “Grounded in the proven science of how young minds acquire written language and powered by real-time data that informs the personal learning journey for each student, this research-based program, delivered by teachers, helps students build the skills needed to become confident readers, expressive writers and critical thinkers from the very start.”
Emerge! offers a comprehensive learning experience that empowers teachers and students with flexible tools and resources to meet their unique needs. Insights captured from classroom activities, assessments, observations and other sources enhance personalization, while dynamic reporting tools and dashboards synthesize and analyze the data to intelligently inform instructional decisions for educators, saving them valuable time in the classroom.
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“Through this curriculum, students will emerge into the world of literacy, building their foundational skills such as phonemic awareness and letter knowledge in addition to grade-level rigorous expectations around decoding, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension,” said one of the program’s authors, Katie Pace Miles, PhD. “For educators, every moment provides the explicit, systematic instruction needed to make learning as easy and efficient as possible, including routines that reduce students’ cognitive load and promote their growth, confidence and agency as independent learners.”
Starting in the 2025-26 school year, Emerge! will be available to pilot in school districts nationwide. Samples and digital course demos are now available. Emerge! will be available for full classroom implementations beginning in the 2026-27 school year.
For more information, visit: https://www.mheducation.com/prek-12/program/microsites/mcgraw-hill-literacy/browse/emerge.html
McGraw Hill
McGraw Hill (NYSE: MH) is a leading global provider of education solutions for preK-12, higher education and professional learning, supporting the evolving needs of millions of educators and students around the world. We provide trusted, high-quality content and personalized learning experiences that use data, technology and learning science to help students progress towards their goals. Through our commitment to fostering a culture of innovation and belonging, we are dedicated to improving outcomes and access to education for all. We have over 30 offices across North America, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and South America, and make our learning solutions available in more than 80 languages. Visit us at mheducation.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or X.
Emerge! offers a comprehensive learning experience that empowers teachers and students with flexible tools and resources to meet their unique needs.
LONDON (AP) — Laws that will make it illegal to create online sexual images of someone without their consent are coming into force soon in the U.K., officials said Thursday, following a global backlash over the use of Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to make sexualized deepfakes of women and children.
Musk's company, xAI, announced late Wednesday that it has introduced measures to prevent Grok from allowing the editing of photos of real people to portray them in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed the move, and said X must “immediately” ensure full compliance with U.K. law. He stressed that his government will remain vigilant on any transgressions by Grok and its users.
“Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent," Starmer said Thursday. “I am glad that action has now been taken. But we’re not going to let this go. We will continue because this is a values argument.”
The chatbot, developed by Musk's company xAI and freely accessed through his social media platform X, has faced global scrutiny after it emerged that it was used in recent weeks to generate thousands of images that “undress” people without their consent. The digitally-altered pictures included nude images as well as depictions of women and children in bikinis or in sexually explicit poses.
Critics have said laws regulating generative AI tools are long overdue, and that the U.K. legal changes should have been brought into force much sooner.
A look at the problem and how the U.K. aims to tackle it:
Britain's media regulator has launched an investigation into whether X has breached U.K. laws over the Grok-generated images of children being sexualized or people being undressed. The watchdog, Ofcom, said such images — and similar productions made by other AI models — may amount to pornography or child sexual abuse material.
The problem stemmed from the launch last year of Grok Imagine, an AI image generator that allows users to create videos and pictures by typing in text prompts. It includes a so-called “spicy mode” that can generate adult content.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall cited a report from the internet Watch Foundation saying the deepfake images included sexualization of 11-year-olds and women subjected to physical abuse.
“The content which has circulated on X is vile. It is not just an affront to decent society, it is illegal,” she said.
Authorities said they are making legal changes to criminalize those who use or supply “nudification” tools.
First, the government says it is fast-tracking provisions in the Data (Use and Access) Act making it a criminal offense to create or request deepfake images. The act was passed by Parliament last year, but had not yet been brought into force.
The legislation is set to come into effect on Feb. 6
“Let this be a clear message to every cowardly perpetrator hiding behind a screen: you will be stopped and when you are, make no mistake that you will face the full force of the law,” Justice Secretary David Lammy said
Separately, the government said it is also criminalizing “nudification” apps as part of the Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently going through Parliament.
The new criminal offense will make it illegal for companies to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images. Kendall said this would “target the problem at its source.”
The investigation by Ofcom is ongoing. Kendall said X could face a fine of up to 10% of its qualifying global revenue depending on the investigation’s outcome and a possible court order blocking access to the site.
Starmer has faced calls for his government to stop using X. Downing Street said this week it was keeping its presence on the platform “under review."
Musk insisted Grok complied with the law. “When asked to generate images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” he posted on X. “There may be times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected. If that happens, we fix the bug immediately.”
FILE - Workers install lighting on an "X" sign atop the company headquarters, formerly known as Twitter, in downtown San Francisco, July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)
