Order K-8 Materials Directly Via Internet

Houghton Mifflin School Direct lets customers order selected educational materials via the Internet. They can point their browser to www.schooldirect.com or link from Education Place (www.eduplace.com), the firm's K-8 Home Page for teachers, parents and students.

Their "store" currently offers reading/language arts materials from all past and present textbook series, including Invitations to Literacy and Heath Reading, as well as selected mathematics, social studies and technology products. Visitors can search by textbook series or specifically by curriculum area, grade and price. Pictures and product descriptions are provided.

Customers choose how products should be shipped and to whom. Credit card authorizations and confirmations of shipments appear online. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA, (800) 733-2828.

This article originally appeared in the 01/01/1997 issue of THE Journal.

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