The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. Same for Matific, which gives students math practice tailored to their skill level, and Edgenuity, which develops online courses. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

If you are a teacher looking for a summer gig, or unique ways to make extra money over your break, please find 10 companies hiring now. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas. Some of these jobs are remote, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

To further emancipate itself from its previous parent company, Pearson’s former K-12 courseware business has changed its name. The company formerly known as Pearson K12 Learning is now called Savvas Learning Co., The company filed for trademarks related to the Savvas name on Oct. according to federal records.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 EdSurge: When you took over as CEO in 2013, there was much made about transforming Pearson’s digital transformation.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

For instance, education companies that rely on corporate customers may take a hit, as those clients look to cut costs. While COVID-19 hit at the tail end of the first quarter, some publicly traded education companies already reported an impact on their Q1 2020 earnings. The company reported cash and cash equivalent of $151.5

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. Pearson, McGraw Hill and Follett defended their inclusive access programs in email interviews with EdSurge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson. Still, U.S.

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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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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5 The new seven-month contract with Pearson was finalized using an emergency procurement process after the education department collaborated with the state’s central procurement office, according to a “Frequently Asked Questions” document the department released.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

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. Connections Academy, the virtual school run by Pearson, saw “strong increases in application volumes” in March. In 2016, the company reached a $168.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

But in their complaint , plaintiffs Campus Book Company, BJJ Corporation, CBSKY, CBSNM and Renttext.com argue that these subscriptions harm independent bookstores by effectively eliminating secondary markets for course materials. McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, Pearson Education Inc., Cengage Learning Inc.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2023

HOBOKEN – Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, announced today that Connections Academy , its K-12 online school program will expand its slate of college and career readiness initiatives for middle and high school students. Credly is a Pearson business. That’s why our c.20,000

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. Most people would be fine if Pearson offered either option to all users?software software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Columbia, Md. – Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) Thirty percent of Connections Academy students begin thinking about their careers between 6 th and 8 th grade as compared to 16% of all students,” said Pearson Virtual Schools VP for Careers, Casey Welch. About Pearson At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning.

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American Consortium for Equity in Education

JUNE 23, 2023

Partners with Coursera, e-Dynamic Learning, Acadeum, and Credly to offer career courses, credentials, college credit, and badges; innovative tri-credit approach to prepare students faster for college and careers Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, announced today that Connections Academy, its K-12 Keep Reading Pearson’s Connections (..)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. Course Hero officials say that the negative reaction came as a surprise.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. Executives of the company say the deal positions them for coming expansions. In the end, the company reported that about 57 percent of shares were sold to Veritas.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

The fortunes of Online Program Management companies, or OPMs, are falling fast these days. These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. The Pivot What 2U announced was both a pivot and an acceleration.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 10, 2016

In Great Britain, government officials and their testing contractor, Pearson, are investigating how the answers for a spelling and grammar assessment ended up on a site where they didn’t belong. The portal allows a marker to score only the tests they are contracted to look at, Pearson said. Security Under Scrutiny. “We

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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 Pearson’s stock drops after half-year results are announced. the company indicated in its official announcement. and the U.K.,

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor. No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation letter, nor is the company anywhere as big as Amazon. His successor will be Joe Rohrlich, who previously served as chief revenue officer for Bazaarvoice, an e-commerce analytics company.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. The company guarantees graduates in the U.S. For the rest, the company reports that its graduates see an average salary bump of $26,000. Prior to the pandemic, the company was seeing more than 200 percent year-over-year growth in student enrollment.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The San Francisco-based company has plans to reach more learners now that it’s raised an $11 million post-Series A financing round. Pearson Ventures, International Finance Corp., In a statement Monday, Pearson announced its $2.2 In a statement Monday, Pearson announced its $2.2 Reach Capital led the round.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

The decision, announced this morning, was “unanimously approved” by the boards of directors of both companies. Department of Justice and terms that would have forced the company to sell off some of its course assets, effectively rendering the transaction “not sensible.” textbook publisher, worth about $3 billion.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As early excitement about Zoom gave way to questions and concerns about privacy, security and unequal access, other companies seized the opportunity to elbow their way into the new competition for digital communication tools appropriate for preschoolers and college students alike. But Zoom has held on. Here’s what we learned.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

on behalf of CDWG Best Science Instructional Solution for Grades PK–8 STEMscopes Science, Accelerate Learning Inc.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification. Similarly, in their earliest days, online courses were basically lectures and readings made digital.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Requiring a stronger test will likely lead to better reading instruction in elementary classrooms across the state as preparation programs will be motivated to align their courses with the components of reading addressed in a stronger test. Require a strong reading test for anyone teaching students in the elementary grades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks. One of those students is Addison Wright, a junior at ASU who took Goegan’s course in the spring of 2016.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

These companies are hiring now. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas. PrepNow, an online tutoring company focused on providing a personal, customized test prep experience for students in the comfort of their homes.

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Pearson Company Assessment Exercises 260

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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