Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Pearson probably still won’t buy your startup. Today, the publisher announced the launch of Pearson Ventures, a $50 million fund earmarked for education technology startups raising Series A and B rounds. The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Originally, the curriculum and textbook giant Pearson filed for the pair of patents in 2017, on behalf of the online credential product it made at the time called Acclaim. It’s worth noting that both Pearson and Credly had long been working with the Open Badges community. “These things have existed for a really long time,” she adds.

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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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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 25, 2012

It could be a nice way to have classroom management system and apps all in one place. apps apps for education free resources learning management system' The student version is in beta, is $10 per year, and includes $5 towards apps. Feel free to share summaries and links to these articles, but do not copy and repost entire article.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 9, 2015

Jeff sits down with Brad Ermiling to discuss his work at the Pearson Research and Innovation Network. About Pearson. Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. Links of interest.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 18, 2015

PowerSchool, a student information system that Pearson says is the most widely used student information system in the United States, will leave the company's fold.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In the realm of education technology, a similar disarray unfolds without a standardized system for edtech interoperability. Andrea Press Classroom Assessment Technical Support Supervisor Pearson Interoperability in education allows different software applications to communicate and work together effectively.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Yesterday, I posted about the many issues we are struggling with North Carolina’s roll-out of the Pearson’s PowerSchool student data system. Today, there was an article of interest on the News and Observer web site entitled “NC Schools Dealing with Problem-Plagued State Computer System.” Now that statement is a bit puzzling.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

It looks like the company, which offers student information systems for schools, will raise about $711 million, with shares priced at $18 each (some thought the price could be as much as $20). Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. PowerSchool is one of a string of edtech IPOs this year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. decided to shut down the system to focus on services that are more directly aligned to “student achievement,” according to the email. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

Under this model, college students don’t procure materials on their own, but instead pay a fee (sometimes added to their tuition bills) in exchange for access to a bundle of digital textbooks and courseware systems assigned for their classes. McGraw-Hill Global Education Holdings, Pearson Education Inc., Cengage Learning Inc.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Pearson has unveiled the Beta-4, the latest revision of a nonverbal measure of cognitive abilities in adults, originally developed by the U.S. At Pearson, we are committed to offering a wide range of solutions to meet the needs of professionals in a variety of settings,” said Aurelio Prifitera, Ph.D., Army during World War I.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Through these deals, colleges become digital book brokers , selling students access codes for packaged digital texts and online homework systems created by commercial publishers. The suits name publishers Cengage Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, as well as book sellers Follett Higher Education Group and Barnes & Noble.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When colleges sign deals with publishers to sell digital textbooks and homework systems directly to students, they’re required by federal regulations to offer those materials at discounted prices. PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. He says his team spent about five years trying, and along the way they helped build some small-scale attempts into learning products, such as a pilot chatbot assistant that was part of a Pearson online psychology courseware system in 2018.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“Their goal is to have trained employees ready to enter the field; ours as a career center is to give students the workforce and soft skills to be employable in whatever they choose,” said Jim Pearson, director of the Hinds center.

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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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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s too bad the state of North Carolina recently forgot this important wisdom when it took on implementing Pearson’s PowerSchool student data system, a new online educator evaluation system called NCEES, or North Carolina Educator Evaluation System, and a new teaching assessment resource system called Schoolnet.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2015

Two-way integration between Pearson PowerSchool and Canvas LMS streamlines processes for K-12 teachers. Instructure, the creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for K-12, announced at SXSWedu that it has partnered with Pearson to integrate the Canvas LMS with student information system PowerSchool.

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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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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. Credit: Catherine Pearson. But that never happened.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Brenda Pearson Director of Professional Learning, Clark County Education Association. The relevance and quality of the professional learning opportunities afforded by the Digital Promise ecosystem is increasingly validated as micro-credentials are incorporated into professional learning systems. Digital Promise is the gold standard. …

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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. The system will also pull in some OER textbook material developed by OpenStax , a low-cost publisher at Rice University.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 1, 2015

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

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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 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.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 14, 2015

For the second time in two months, Minnesota has stopped testing because of distributed denial-of-service attacks, and Pearson's system was disrupted.

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

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

CourseGateway reviews existing courseware products according to five criteria: equity, efficacy, functionality, systems capacities and privacy, data protection and rights. 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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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2021

When schools reopened for in-person instruction and science said we should maintain physical distance from each other, improve ventilation systems, and wear masks, educators reimagined and reconfigured classrooms, opened windows and doors, and even met with students outside. Online learning is here to stay.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

Pearson announced that more than 1 million clinical assessment subtests have been administered on Q-interactive, a digital system used by psychologists and speech-language pathologists. Cleveland Metropolitan School District psychologists target an increase in student engagement, time and cost savings with Q-interactive.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

2023 CODiE AWARD EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY FINALISTS Best Administrative Solution Lightspeed Digital Insight, Lightspeed Systems Qwickly Attendance, Qwickly, Inc. Shift iQ, InSite Information Systems PowerSchool, PowerSchool Realityworks, Inc., Details about each finalist are listed at [link]. The category winners will be announced June.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

For most kids, it makes for a memorable summer—and is an absolute blast, says Arthur Pearson, president and CEO of the Thompson Island program. By summer of 2020, as the pandemic raged and conversations circulated about systemic racism in the U.S., At times, they’re getting schooled in STEM and social-emotional learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Over the past 10 years, new learning management systems (LMSs) have sprung on the scene to rival the Blackboards and Moodles of old. And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? On the EdSurge Product Index alone, 56 products self-identify and fall into the LMS category.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“Our customers discovered that the way they were assessing student performance in the classroom was not in line with standards mastery on achievement tests,” said Pearson.

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