The old Glenview headquarters of Scott Foresman is empty as of August 2020, and Crain's Chicago Business[1] reported that the broker hired to sell the property had missed a mortgage payment.

During this early period, the company occupied less than 100 square feet (9.3 m2) in an office on Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

[3] Zerna Sharp, a reading consultant and textbook editor for Scott Foresman, worked with Gray to develop what became the publisher's series of Dick and Jane readers.

[3][4] Gray wrote and Eleanor B. Campbell did most of the illustrations for the early Dick and Jane readers, while Sharp selected and edited the storylines, and supervised production of the series.

In the 1965 edition, the last of the Dick and Jane series, Scott Foresman introduced the first African American family as characters in a first-grade reader.

[4][5][6] Scott, Foresman became a public corporation as SFN Companies and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Three years later, Time sold Scott Foresman to HarperCollins, the book publishing subsidiary of News Corporation.

In 1996, News Corp sold the brand to Pearson PLC, the global publisher and owner of Penguin and the Financial Times.