 Weekly Reader is an exciting company and a leader in the field of education. We are a publisher of materials for elementary and secondary schools, with over 90 percent of the school districts in the United States using our materials. 
Weekly Reader Corporation, which began with the publication of the first Current Events on May 20, 1902, celebrated its 100th
birthday in 2002. In that span of time, Weekly Reader publications have covered all the major
events of the 20th century, from the Boer War to the election of George W. Bush.
The best known of Weekly Reader's publications is probably Weekly Reader, a newspaper for children in the elementary grades. This famous newspaper was founded in 1928 by Eleanor Johnson, then director of elementary schools in York, Pa., and a well-known reading expert. The first edition of Weekly Reader-one for the fourth grade-appeared in September of 1928. Other editions were added later, until, by 1959, there were papers for kindergarten through grade 6. A pre-kindergarten edition was added in 1980. Today Weekly Reader is the leading classroom periodical publisher, coming in seven grade-specific editions, and serving more than 7 million elementary schoolchildren in 50,000 schools. The company also publishes other branded periodicals and instructional materials, including Read, Current Science, Know Your World Extra, and Current Health, Career World, and its founding publication, Current Events. Visit the Weekly Reader Online Store for additional information about our products. Weekly Reader was purchased in November 1999 by Ripplewood Holdings.
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