Holt McDougal comprises of the most trusted names in grades 6-12 educational publishing - Holt, Rinehart and Winston and McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. We develop leading products and services to better meet the challenging and changing needs of educators and students. Holt McDougal offers the most comprehensive, customized, and innovative products and services available in educational publishing.

Holt McDougal utilized our unique expertise in assessment to develop a lightweight Java test builder that was distributed on CDs with textbook content.

Additionally, Breakthrough completed several interoperability projects with McDougal to allow 3rd party test delivery services to be provided by assessment partners.

Breakthrough also implemented the ground-breaking EssaySmart product, which allows for web-based essays to be graded online in real time.

This was Breakthrough's second implementation of online essay scoring.