2016 Common Core Company Pearson 
Marketplace K-12
JULY 29, 2016
The stock price for Pearson PLC , the world’s largest education business, dropped precipitously Friday after its announcement of a 7 percent decline in underlying sales to about $2.5 billion for the first half of 2016. Pearson’s stock drops after half-year results are announced. Source: Google Finance. and the U.K.,
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. Ramping Up Online Programs.
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Marketplace K-12
AUGUST 29, 2016
Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 8, 2018
Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.
Marketplace K-12
MARCH 30, 2016
Nearly all of those excluded worked for test-prep companies, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz reported. ” In one of Reuters’ stories , the agency reports that test-prep companies posted people outside the March 5 debut of the new exam–and that they collected information from test-takers that was later circulated.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.
Hack Education
AUGUST 12, 2016
” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Oh look. million total.
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