McGraw-Hill Higher Education and National Journal Join Forces to Bring Today's Politics Into the Classroom

Young voters are headed to the polls in unprecedented numbers. At colleges and universities, these voters are also headed to courses in American government. As Election Day nears in one of the most historic American presidential races ever, it is important for students to understand the issues, listen to what the candidates are saying and take a stand for what they believe in at the polls. Instructors of American government courses are constantly looking for ways to help students make that connection between what they learn in the classroom, how politics gets done, and what that means to them as they learn to participate in their own civic life.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education and National Journal--the nation's premiere political insider information source--have joined together to create exclusive print and digital content for all McGraw-Hill Higher Education American government texts. This alliance combines the academic scholarship of McGraw-Hill authors with the most trusted source in current, non-partisan, political information, and will provide students and professors with the most current and relevant materials available in the market. This alliance is the first to join the exclusive beltway information resource with one of the nation's largest higher education publishers.

"Through ethnographic research of student learning behavior over the last few years, we know that students learn better when their reading materials are directly relevant to their lives," said Steve Debow, president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education's Humanities, Social Sciences and Languages Group. "Nothing could be more relevant during this historic election than the content National Journal brings to the table."

National Journal's "insight for insiders" has been providing unbiased reporting on the politics inside the beltway since 1969 and is the source of information for today's policy makers. This insider information will now be available to all students using McGraw-Hill American government content, including AMGOV (Losco), The American Democracy (Patterson), and American Democracy Now (Harrison) within every chapter of each text giving students a real lens into how politics gets done. The National Journal articles provided have been edited for undergraduates and will highlight key political issues, people and policies, providing them with up-to-date examples and content both in the texts and through weekly articles online.

"With the election energizing the student vote there has never been a better time to bring the dynamics of national politics through National Journal to textbooks in political science," said Timothy M. Shannon, managing director, business development, National Journal.

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