Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

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. Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“Their goal is to have trained employees ready to enter the field; ours as a career center is to give students the workforce and soft skills to be employable in whatever they choose,” said Jim Pearson, director of the Hinds center.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 18, 2016

Pearson 1-year stock price chart, New York Stock Exchange, from Morningstar. Pearson 3-month stock price chart, New York Stock Exchange, from Morningstar. The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring Pearson PLC, the global education company, to conduct a business strategy review with an eye to becoming more profitable.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 23, 2016

Education giant Pearson announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce ( nice summary from the WaPo ). The point: declining enrollment in American higher education hit Pearson, and hard. Interestingly, Pearson doesn’t see that trend reversing in the near future.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

million settlement over curriculum from education software giant Pearson that the school system said its teachers barely used. Unified while Pearson provided curriculum on the devices as a subcontractor. As a result, the settlement was with Apple, even though the dispute concerned the Pearson product.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Teachers’ union pension funds that invest in Pearson PLC joined with other public sector investors today in petitioning the education giant to “urgently review its business strategy,” citing the company’s “tumbling revenue and plunging stock prices.” Pearson: Too Reliant on Testing?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

In a n ationally representative survey released in 2015, the last time this data was made available, education publisher Pearson found that 53 percent of 4th and 5th graders, 66 percent of middle schoolers, and 82 percent of high school students regularly used a smartphone.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018. We’ll have flying cars before we will have AI tutors.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions. Participants in Kids CoLab Hoboken will meet virtually and face-to-face throughout the 2015-2016 school year with teams from Pearson.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 12, 2016

There were 418 mergers and acquisitions in the education industry in 2015, up from 329 in 2014, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. The post Education Industry Mergers, Acquisitions Jumped Significantly in 2015 appeared first on Market Brief. See chart, below).

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The SWOT activity is done in the very early stages of development of a mission so that the brand strategy can be assured of success (Armstrong & Kotler, 2015). Boston, MA: Pearson. In conducting a SWOT, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to brand success are stated and examined. & Kotler, P.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These numbers still trail those from the likes of Pearson, which claimed 8 million subscribers in 2019 for its digital courseware platform. A 2015 report from Tyton Partners counted more than 120 courseware offerings from over 100 companies in the market, adding up to $1.6 million to 3 million. with most of the rest in Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

In 2006, Jefferson County Public Schools, a large Kentucky district that includes the city of Louisville, began using SuccessMaker, a Pearson product designed to supplement reading and math instruction in kindergarten through eighth grade. That same school year, Pearson paid for a study of SuccessMaker Reading in kindergarten and first grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 McGraw-Hill Education filed for an IPO in 2015 but withdrew three years later. The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S. textbook publisher if the deal is approved, with a combined valuation estimated at $5 billion. It reported $1.6

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

note : We’re counting down the top stories of 2015 based on popularity (i.e. Craig Herring, the director of Prek-12 curriculum and instruction, explains that they started using some Pearson online textbooks in 2009, back when they were essentially PDF versions of the printed books. website traffic) to No.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

This latest deal—the ninth since Gulati joined in 2015—is part of PowerSchool’s ongoing drive to create a one-stop shop where data about a student or teacher can be collected and shared across the different tools they use in their day-to-day lives. Neither Gulati nor Schoology CEO Jeremy Friedman commented on the transaction amount.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Data from Speak Up 2015 National Findings show that 54% of students use YouTube all the time, and almost 40% of them are finding online videos to help with their homework. A recent Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey clearly states that the number of students who regularly use a tablet has grown compared to the previous year.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time Pearson operated under different brands that made the totality of what Pearson did less obvious. I remember when the Pearson brand could be found on fewer than 50 business cards, despite being a large and global education business. Also back then, Pearson generally operated as an enabler of learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

That's an all-time high, and a big increase since the fall of 2015, when only 3 percent of students reported downloading free course materials. For example, in mid-July, publishing giant Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” strategy for updating college course materials. states and two Canadian provinces.

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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. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Its last influx of funding came in the form of a $32 million Series D round in 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

“Even if they love Pearson [textbooks], some faculty, when they saw some of the Cengage options, said, ‘This is pretty comparable, that’s fine,’” said Bernard Polnariev, assistant vice president for academic affairs at Union County College. “If If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.”

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User Generated Education

MARCH 24, 2019

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Boston, MA: Pearson Education. Websites – . Sustainable Develop Goals – [link]. Retrieved from [link]. World Bank Group.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S. billion by 2023.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Then in 2015, the company took a gamble: It raised $12 million for its first round of outside investment. Today the company has nearly 60 full-time staff, almost quadruple the number from early 2015. Then—and now—it ranked among the top 25 most popular U.S. websites, according to Quantcast.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. At Stride Inc., Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. Online Grade Portals.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Pearson, P. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., New York: Continuum. Teachers College Press. Griffo, V. & Raphael, T.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

A decade ago, the big education companies were traditional textbook providers such as Pearson. In 2015, NetDragon paid approximately $130 million to acquire U.K.-based Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Few companies have tackled the full range of learners since the days when Pearson was touted as the world’s largest learning company. By 2015, they had launched their flagship product, Byju’s Learning App, and were raising millions of dollars in funding. “We used to think about edtech globalization in one way—from the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 In the past, publishers such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill were counted on to be the exit strategy. Yet recent years have been rough for traditional publishers like Pearson, which is in a turnaround phase. billion across 126 deals.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012. In 2015, it purchased Tadpoles , another company focused on communication between parents and early childcare educators. “Our content is what people fall in love with,” says Roden, 41. and service over two million children a year.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Pearson/Harris Poll reveals new findings on mobile device ownership and how wi-fi access impacts learning in school. The survey, released by Pearson and conducted on its behalf by Harris Poll, finds that while student ownership of mobile devices continues to increase, wi-fi connectivity at school lags behind home access.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Print-only titles accounted for 45 percent of U.S.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 16, 2015

June 19, 2015 by Chopstick Sensei from United States I don’t know how Jeff makes the time for this empire of his, but he’s putting together amazing information to help teachers out. A wealth of knowledge June 15, 2015 by jpdalton from United States I got the honor of hearing this gentleman speak in person and he knocked my socks off!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Vanessa Pearson, UMPI’s interim dean of students, says as part of the shift, professors and administrators have also examined their own courses to identify “learning outcomes,” which are specific pieces of knowledge that students must know to graduate from a certain program. Vanessa Pearson, UMPI’s interim dean of students.

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