Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. something that doesn’t impact literacy.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

Kibby has spent much of his career working for major textbook publishers—having served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group and a senior vice president at Pearson Education before that. Earlier this year Knewton’s biggest partner, Pearson, pulled back and decided to rely far less on the company’s technology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. The group joins others who have spoken out against the merger, including a letter sent last month by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group on behalf of several student organizations.

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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.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

Next, Ramani worked as a DVA group regional operations director in the state of Washington, leading three regional directors in overseeing 36 clinics in Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle. In addition, Osmond has held executive positions at companies such as Pearson Assessments and Certiport, a Pearson VUE business.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

That group of colleges, companies and nonprofits is working to build an openly licensed Open Badges platform for digital certificates that professionals and students can use to show they’ve mastered certain skills (either academic or so-called “soft skills,” like collaboration or problem solving).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The group received responses from 11,800 college students, from 39 colleges and universities in the U.S. Many colleges have adopted inclusive access models—while publishers like Pearson , McGraw Hill and Cengage have made them part of their switch to digital—to ensure students can access books at a discounted price. Its conclusion?

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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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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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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2015

Pearson has launched the Developmental Reading Assessment, Second Edition PLUS (DRA2+) iPad App for literacy assessment. head of Pearson’s Assessment Product Solutions group. DRA2+ app guides teachers through reading assessment.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. The platform launched in June with reviews of 16 products, including tools made by OpenStax, Wiley, Lumen Learning, Pearson and Labster.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In a recent blog post , Feldstein notes that OLI launched a whole new market segment for textbooks, inspiring commercial publishers, including Pearson, Cengage and Wiley, to build their own courseware products that are now growing in adoption. Since the pandemic, Carnegie Mellon has seen an uptick in people using OLI courseware.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

Bill Hole, Lake Stevens resident and President, US Licensing Group, agrees. “I About Certiport Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 15,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

Pearson Online. Many in our EdNews Daily community have worked as test administrators or scorers for Pearson in the past, but they have hundreds of other job possibilities as well. If I missed a company you’d recommend, comment below or head over to the Educators’ Exchange Facebook group and join the conversation!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

They don’t have the skills to assess whether promising findings with one group of students may realistically translate to their own buildings. In fact, in most cases, there is a statistically significant negative impact when SuccessMaker Reading students are compared to the control group.”. Pearson stands behind its findings.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

We had a [software] platform for remediation and realized it was used for a smaller group of students than we thought,” she said. “We Users can also set up alerts to learn about group buying opportunities for specific items and services. We had too many licenses, so we cut some.” The idea is that buying in bulk can save money.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

The K-12 curriculum market is “incredibly diverse,” says Jeff Seaman, director of Bay View Analytics (formerly known as Babson Survey Research Group), which conducted the survey. Even the top three publishers—Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—together occupy less than half of curriculum adoptions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

So far the company has won participation by major textbook publishers, including Palgrave, Wiley and Pearson. Non-textbook publishers it works with include Atlantic Books and Greenleaf Book Group. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2 That falling market share is well documented.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Kibby was previously an executive at McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson. The education services group, which includes its online program management business, reported a 69 percent boost in revenue, which the company attributed to its Learning House business that it bought for $200 million in November 2018.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

Educators expressed their displeasure on social media and in OER discussion groups, in part because of Course Hero itself, which some educators feel encourages students to cheat with the course notes and other materials posted there, but also because the deal wasn’t announced, and they felt that its parameters were unclear. “But

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These creative coding projects took place during Family Coding Day , a free event hosted by the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University, which is dedicated to designing and evaluating technologies that promote young children’s learning and development. The event first started as a community outreach initiative for DevTech in 2016.

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Robotics Pearson Learning Survey 147

EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2018

A free talk forum can give students, both international and domestic a safe space to practice their learning skills, and build chemistry among groups. For example, when educators work with a group class, they can provide team activities which can provide a level of comfort for students who may not like one-on-one encounters.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

FutureLearn, an online platform owned by the British Open University and Australia’s Seek Group, reported a 50 percent increase in new students. It’s a nearly $4 billion industry worldwide with leaders such as 2U, Academic Partnerships, Bisk, Noodle, Pearson and Wiley Education Services.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube. ” Angela Cerrato says to use the following tips: 1.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

But up until last week, three of those publishers—Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning—were suing Follett over alleged counterfeit sales. Ingram Book Group, MBS Textbook Exchange and Valore. I think this sends a message to others in the industry to what the expectation is now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers @ marinabers from Tufts University, where she is Director of the Dev Tech Research Group. The particular robots we have developed in my Dev Tech Research Group at Tufts are called Kibo. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e202. Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017. Bio as submitted.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Headlines and news feeds frequently flash statistics about how millennials—more than any group before it—are more likely to switch jobs and careers several times in their lifetime. What’s Next for Pearson? The digital era has rocked the once-steady foundation for education kingmakers like Pearson.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. As an example, Pearson offers a course in the criminal justice program. One of the learning outcomes for Policing in the Community might be “to understand the laws regarding domestic violence,” Pearson said. Dobrin asks.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Open Up Resources is led by CEO Larry Singer , the former managing director for Pearson’s K-12 North American sales. Jay Diskey, the executive director of the PreK-12 learning group for the Association of American Publishers, said he couldn’t say whether the Open Up Resources effort will take off or stall. Maturing Models?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

. “This survey shows how out-of-touch politically motivated book banning and censorship groups are,” said John Chrastka, EveryLibrary Institute Executive Director. Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Over the years, Byju’s has acquired several assets to shore up its offerings, including Edurite and TutorVista, from Pearson in 2017. They include Yuanfudao, which raised $1 billion in March in a deal led by Tencent Holdings and Hillhouse Capital Group that valued the company at $7.8 based developer of educational games for the iPad.

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