McGraw Hill Brings Its K-12 Curriculum Into Anthropic's Claude for Teachers

The link works through a Model Context Protocol connector, the open standard that lets AI assistants pull data from outside systems. McGraw Hill said it is one of the first major providers of core K-12 curriculum to connect its own content to Claude for Teachers, which Anthropic launched in July to give verified US K-12 educators free access to Claude along with connectors to curricula and other education tools.

The deal shows how traditional content owners are trying to stay paid for their material as teachers turn to general-purpose AI tools. Instead of competing with chatbots, McGraw Hill is offering its licensed content as a data source inside them, so that AI-generated lesson materials draw on curriculum a district has already bought.

Jana Thompson, president of McGraw Hill's School group, said: "AI has tremendous potential to support teachers when it is integrated with the trusted curriculum." She described the work as complementing the company's core business and meeting teachers where they already work.

McGraw Hill also said it has chosen Claude as an enterprise AI productivity tool for its own employees. TeachFX, an AI instructional coaching platform the company acquired in September, is already part of the Claude for Teachers ecosystem. McGraw Hill builds its own AI features into its products, including Teacher Assistant and Writing Assistant.

The company announced the Anthropic integration on the same day it reported results for its fiscal second quarter of 2027, which ended September 30, 2026. Revenue fell 5.5% from a year earlier to $632.2 million, which the company said was above its expectations. Digital revenue rose 2.6% to $361.4 million, while re-occurring revenue fell 2.0% to $414.1 million, or 65.5% of the total.

Net income was $86.4 million, compared with $105.3 million a year earlier, and adjusted EBITDA fell to $250.6 million from $286.4 million, a margin of 39.6% against 42.8%. For the first half, revenue was down 1.9% at $1,182.1 million, while digital revenue grew 5.6% to $714.9 million. The company reaffirmed its full-year guidance of $2,115 million to $2,175 million in revenue and $750 million to $790 million in adjusted EBITDA.

Chief executive Philip Moyer said in the earnings release that "McGraw Hill has established an early-mover advantage" in agentic AI for education, and that connecting its content to AI platforms was "expanding our addressable market." The company said it has also integrated its proprietary content into Microsoft Copilot through the same protocol, announced a similar integration with the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and doubled the number of institutional agentic AI pilots under way.

Its AI Reader tool has logged more than 80 million learning interactions across about 3.4 million students since launch, according to the company. McGraw Hill did not say how it will charge for curriculum delivered through Claude, or when the beta will open more widely.