Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Now one of its most high-profile content partners and investors, Pearson , is pulling back. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

I have been extremely fortunate to be a part of OTAN’s Digital Leadership Academy (DLAC ), first as a participant in 2016, and now as a coach to mentor other adult educators in meeting their program goals. California’s adult education non-credit programs have a gem in OTAN and its DLAC program.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. It’s very sneaky,” Pearson said. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2023

Orlando, Florida – Certiport, a Pearson VUE business and the leading provider of performance-based IT certification exams that accelerate academic and career opportunities for learners, today announced the winners of the 2023 Microsoft Office Specialist US National Championship. in the United States and other countries.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Pearson is expanding the power of digital technology to help students build strong writing skills. Now, Pearson Writer digital writing resources are integrated with Microsoft Word, providing students access to support for improving their writing skills. Nine out of 10 students agree that Pearson Writer was easy to use.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Interoperability certification gives teachers, students freedom to assign and use any Pearson content regardless of LMS. Leading IMS members like Pearson are committed to creating content and applications that “play nice” with one another so that accessing content from multiple sources and publishers is a unified, continuous experience.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 23, 2016

What captured the most attention from our readers in 2016? Interest in Amazon, Pearson, and Bill Gates was high, as was a focus on open education resources. The post Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016 appeared first on Market Brief.

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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. Ramping Up Online Programs.

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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. The post Pearson Names New N.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Pearson, Knewton Form Partnership: Pearson and Knewton have teamed up in an effort to “personalize” K–12 math education starting with elementary school students. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, a test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets, announced the CERTIFIED 2016 Educator Conference, a conference dedicated to helping educators bring the full promise and potential of technology certification to the classroom.

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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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Waterford

JULY 8, 2016

While you’re on ISTE’s site, be sure to also check out The 2016 ISTE Standards For Students , a helpful guide on thoughtfully integrating ed tech. The Lester B Pearson School Board has a wonderful site dedicated to Digital Citizenship. A couple of the activities highlighted in this article, are great for K-5 students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

So far the company has won participation by major textbook publishers, including Palgrave, Wiley and Pearson. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2 billion for 2016—it’s biggest loss in history. And a month later, Pearson announced that it would lay off 3,000 more employees.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

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. Data from the same Pearson survey says that 50% of high school students use learning apps, and this percentage grows in the case of students in elementary school.

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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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Waterford

JULY 8, 2016

While you’re on ISTE’s site, be sure to also check out The 2016 ISTE Standards For Students , a helpful guide on thoughtfully integrating ed tech. The Lester B Pearson School Board has a wonderful site dedicated to Digital Citizenship. A couple of the activities highlighted in this article, are great for K-5 students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

What’s Next for Pearson? The digital era has rocked the once-steady foundation for education kingmakers like Pearson. In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3 Not Buying Your Education Startup.). Here’s what’s next for the world’s largest education company, according to its CEO John Fallon.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

There’s been a five-fold increase in incidents since 2016, with 1,180 reported incidents connected to U.S. Cyberattacks on schools are on the rise, according to the latest available report from the K-12 Security Information Exchange, a national nonprofit focused on cybersecurity and K-12 schools. public schools in that time.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The agreement , forged in 2016 and signed by ASU’s provost, outlines the terms for developing a version of MindTap for a microeconomics course where the university would supply content using the publisher’s digital platform. The combined companies would form the second largest textbook publisher, behind Pearson.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The event first started as a community outreach initiative for DevTech in 2016. Madhu Govind is a doctoral student in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Instead, it means families need creative spaces where they can come together, code together and learn together.

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Robotics Pearson Learning Survey 147

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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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. Amazon Inspire.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The private equity firm purchased PowerSchool from Pearson for $350 million in 2015, and has since spent hundreds of millions more on acquisitions. After PowerSchool rolled out its Unified Classroom suite in 2016, Schoology was tapped to be its first learning management system partner.

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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. Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Connections Academy, the virtual school run by Pearson, saw “strong increases in application volumes” in March. In 2016, the company reached a $168.5 But for some online education companies, the upheaval represents a chance to profit. Last month, Hechinger reported that website traffic was surging for some ed tech companies.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

There, Bencivenga helped orchestrate IO’s purchases of assessment platform Eadms in August 2016, and of eSchoolData, a student data management system, in September 2017. Then, in July 2018, Illuminate Education bought IO Education as part of a five-way merger. Number two, have there been recent acquisitions in your area of edtech?

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Pearson has bowed out (but started its own investment fund ). It has been supported by a mix of grants and private capital, including $4 million in a 2016 investment deal. Textbook publishers, once considered likely and logical buyers for education technology startups, have lost a bit of their appetite.

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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. “We

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 129

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

David Pearson, professor emeritus and former dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. 2016 Without efficiency, you cannot make meaning. Source: Reading Plus Efficiency makes reading easier and more comfortable, but there are other critical benefits to the reader. Graphic: Reading Plus.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

million students who graduated this past spring Also good news is the fact that employers are estimated to hire about 5 percent more graduates from the class of 2016 than 2015. This is good news for the 1.9 And one of the key ways schools are enhancing their connection with students is through personal technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

One of those students is Addison Wright, a junior at ASU who took Goegan’s course in the spring of 2016. The days of the $300 textbook are over,” says NIk Osborne, a senior vice president of strategy and business operation for Pearson, who says the future is lower-cost digital tools where content is bundled in.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

They were looking to license their tools, or acquire them, or simply see what new ideas startups were coming up with,” says Karen Billings, who ran SIIA’s education technology division from 2002 to 2016. Over the past decade, technological advancements turned education technology from a fringe to an increasingly mainstream market.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

And around 2017, publishers including Pearson that once used Knewton began to pull back. Under Brian Kibby, who took over as Knewton’s CEO after Jose Ferreira stepped down in December 2016, the company attempted to remake itself with a new business: selling digital courseware directly to higher-ed institutions and students.

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