Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. But by 2015, Pearson was looking to unload PowerSchool , which was bought by the private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $350 million.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

(Waltham, MA) October 24, 2018 — Dr. Marina Bers has been named the new department chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Dr. Bers said, “I am honored to have been appointed as the new chair of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

The Journal of Special Education , 41(4), 209–222. link] Curran, M. Linguistic Diversity and Classroom Management. Theory Into Practice, 42(4), 334–340. link] Emmer, E. T., & Stough, L. Classroom Management: A Critical Part of Educational Psychology, With Implications for Teacher Education. Educational Psychologist , 36(2), 103–112. Marzano, R.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. If approved, the pending acquisition would mark the latest puzzle piece that PowerSchool has purchased this decade. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

2U 2008 2014 $665M (IPO) Archipelago Learning 2000 2012 $302M (acquired by PLATO Learning) Chegg 2005 2013 $830M (IPO) Connections Education 2001 2011 $400M (acquired by Pearson) HigherOne 2000 2012 $260M (acquired by Blackboard) Instructure 2008 2014 $487M (IPO) K12.com

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Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2016

This is why you don’t see Pearson, McGraw, or other major publishers reselling copies of CC BY textbooks. In 2001 Richard Baraniuk released his open textbook Signals and Systems. And it does this without the ambiguity and other issues associated with the NC clause. Let’s look at a specific example.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Published by Pearson Canada Inc., Reprinted with permission by Pearson Canada Inc. Excerpted from “ Taking Shape: Activities to Develop Geometric and Spatial Thinking ” by Joan Moss, Catherine D. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. By Joan Moss, Catherine D. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes.

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