EdTech Magazine

JUNE 8, 2018

Educational research group Pearson reports that there’s increasing awareness and recognition among teachers and administrators that traditional parent-teacher conferences yield limited results , particularly for traditionally marginalized student populations. Let Parents Help Design Your Communication Tactics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S. PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson. PIRG report, however, says the actual contracts tell a different story. Pearson has typically seen opt-out rates below 5 percent, according to Osborne.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

It’s the lowest spending in fifteen years, the report notes. Seventy-three percent of students now report being assigned free or non-paid material, the report says. But in many cases, students are not getting required textbooks, with the report saying that 27 percent skipped purchasing course materials for at least one class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Catherine Pearson, parent of a student in special education. Other parents report simply being called almost every day to pick up their child early. 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.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

The suits name publishers Cengage Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, as well as book sellers Follett Higher Education Group and Barnes & Noble. Pearson, McGraw Hill and Follett defended their inclusive access programs in email interviews with EdSurge. With their collective power, they could shut down resellers of books.”

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 19, 2017

Pearson officials apologized after a reporting error on a state history test used to determine students' eligibility for graduation. The post Mississippi Testing Contract Yanked From Pearson After Scoring Errors appeared first on Market Brief.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 1, 2014

In two previous posts, "Pearson PowerSchool Disasters in NC and Tech Lessons to Be Learned From It" and "Update! Pearson Sees Most of NC Users as Satisfied with PowerSchool Huh?" I outlined the major issues North Carolina public schools are navigating due to Pearson''s malfunctioning PowerSchool software.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The article also says Pearson has corrected a lot of problems as well. Still, I just can’t help but comment on this statement by Pearson spokesman Brandon Pinette: “We are confident the system is working better every day, and that the majority of users are satisfied with the new capabilities they have.” Yes, it has been difficult.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 1, 2015

Pearson Procurement idaho learningmanagementsystem' A state review blames Idaho''s failure to implement Schoolnet on mismanagement and problems with the $61 million learning management system.

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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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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 6, 2017

More jobs are on the chopping block through 2019 as Pearson plans changes to improve its financial results. The post Pearson’s Latest Financial Report Card: Another 3,000 Jobs To Be Cut appeared first on Market Brief.

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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

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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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

APRIL 12, 2022

In the end, the company reported that about 57 percent of shares were sold to Veritas. The publisher has been middle of the pack in recent years, with stronger performance than McGraw Hill but not as good as companies like Pearson, says James Wiley, principal analyst at the research and advisory firm Eduventures.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Brenda Pearson Director of Professional Learning, Clark County Education Association. The report explores how Digital Promise screens prospective issuers to understand the research grounding their work and helps them shape their concept for micro-credentials.

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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. Kevin Capitani has been named president for Pearson, North America.

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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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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

About four years ago, Pearson purchased the company that supported North Carolina’s Student data system called NC WISE. Pearson then informed the state that it was shutting down support for NC WISE. Naturally, North Carolina then purchased Pearson’s PowerSchool software to provide the state with a state-wide student data system.

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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. Bloomberg first reported the purchase on January 28. Utilizing New York-based Knewton’s adaptive learning platform, Pearson says it will update its digital curriculum, enVisionMATH2.0.

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techlearning

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tech&Learning expands edtech coverage to include daily reporting by industry expert Brian Nadel brings his School Tools blog

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

A recent report from Technavio found that revenue from digital signage in the education market is expected to grow 10 percent by 2021. Cluttered bulletin boards, garbled loudspeaker announcements and missed memos are becoming a thing of the past as a growing number of schools turn to digital signage.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

A white paper from Pearson is designed to help educators navigate different approaches to students’ college and career readiness. “ On Track: Redefining Readiness in Education and the Workplace ,” from Pearson, was written by David T. . Next page: Three readiness models in the report. Conley, Ph.D.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2022

According to Pearson VUE’s 2021 Value of Certification study, 69% of IT managers believe certification significantly increases an employee’s productivity,” said Ray Murray, of Vice President and General Manager, Certiport. vs 2.78 (4.0 scale) Higher graduation rates for certified high school students: 97.5% vs 1.0%.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research out this year from consulting firm Tyton Partners, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Every Learner Everywhere found that professors lately are reporting an increase in the DFWI rate—that is, the percent of students in a course who receive a D grade, fail, withdraw or don’t complete the class.

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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. Material from a press release was used in this report. DRA2+ app guides teachers through reading assessment.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

What ensued instead was a costly debacle, and, in its wake, a fledgling, problematic recovery, described in a new report released September 2. The researchers also found limited use of online curriculum provided by Pearson, for which the district purchased a three-year license, at the added cost of about $200 per device.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

Even the top three publishers—Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt—together occupy less than half of curriculum adoptions. Below are three takeaways from the report. There are well over 100 publishers, and none can claim a majority of the K-12 space. to enact emergency distance learning.) Clear and obvious patterns are.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

A Hechinger Report review found dozens of companies promoting their products’ effectiveness on their websites, in email pitches and in vendor brochures with little or shoddy evidence to support their claims. That same school year, Pearson paid for a study of SuccessMaker Reading in kindergarten and first grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

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’s stock jumped more than 30 percent after its earnings report on May 4, reaching $61.91 The company reported cash and cash equivalent of $151.5 at Tuesday’s close.

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Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In his role, Chanoff will lead all functions of the revenue team, including Client Success, Sales, Field Marketing, and Revenue Operations, and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team, will report directly to Brian Thomas , Chief Executive Officer at Lightspeed Systems. “We

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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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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. Gary Miron, an education researcher who co-authored a National Education Policy Center report on for-profit charter schools. At Stride Inc.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Coursera, for example, reported that as of the end of 2020, it had grown to having more than 77 million registered learners on its platform from more than 190 countries—although not all of those people are taking courses for credit or are seeking credentials. Overall, “primarily online institutions” in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S. Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 Last week, Cengage reported $1.5 It reported $1.6 Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. billion, would still be ahead of the pack. billion in 2013.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In its most recent earnings report , which covers the three months ended July 31, 2019, Wiley disclosed that it had “spent $73 million in total on acquisitions in the quarter, including zyBooks and Knewton.” Kibby was previously an executive at McGraw-Hill Education and Pearson.

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