Inside the Belly of a Very Troubled Beast Alan Singer | Huffington Post The Pearson Solution Division has grown rapidly and Bass claims it likes to boast that it is "building an airplane while it is in the air." Bass feels that "Pearson is no longer a content provider." Instead, it has become a "technology company that is heavily invested in data. It is disturbing to consider the amount of data they collect, own, interpret and disseminate that influence policies and practices in education." - Read Full Article |
Pearson Foundation Fined Millions for Violating Laws
By Diane Ravitch | National Education Policy Center
New York state’s attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman won an agreement from the Pearson Foundation to pay $7.7 million in fines for using its charitable activities to advance its corporation’s profit-making arm. “Around 2010, Pearson began financing an effort through its foundation to develop courses based on the Common Core. The attorney general’s report said Pearson had hoped to use its charity to win endorsements and donations from a “prominent foundation.” That group appears to be the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “The case shed a light on the competitive world of educational testing and technology, which Pearson has come to dominate. As federal and state leaders work to overhaul struggling schools by raising academic standards, educational companies are rushing to secure lucrative contracts in testing, textbooks and software. - Read more
By Diane Ravitch | National Education Policy Center
New York state’s attorney general Eric T. Schneiderman won an agreement from the Pearson Foundation to pay $7.7 million in fines for using its charitable activities to advance its corporation’s profit-making arm. “Around 2010, Pearson began financing an effort through its foundation to develop courses based on the Common Core. The attorney general’s report said Pearson had hoped to use its charity to win endorsements and donations from a “prominent foundation.” That group appears to be the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “The case shed a light on the competitive world of educational testing and technology, which Pearson has come to dominate. As federal and state leaders work to overhaul struggling schools by raising academic standards, educational companies are rushing to secure lucrative contracts in testing, textbooks and software. - Read more
Pearson's Profit Lobby
By Aimie Randall | WatchDog Wire
Pearson Education is positioned to reap historic benefits in the corporate and political arena. In May, the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College or Career) testing consortium announced that Pearson Education won a bid to administer and manage the standardized tests that bear the PARCC name. While there is no dollar value on the contract yet, the potential is unimaginable as PARCC tests may be administered to U.S. school children in 14 states. - Read More
By Aimie Randall | WatchDog Wire
Pearson Education is positioned to reap historic benefits in the corporate and political arena. In May, the PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College or Career) testing consortium announced that Pearson Education won a bid to administer and manage the standardized tests that bear the PARCC name. While there is no dollar value on the contract yet, the potential is unimaginable as PARCC tests may be administered to U.S. school children in 14 states. - Read More
LA School iPad Deal with Apple, Pearson Critiqued in Board Report
By Sean Cavanagh | Education Week
The Los Angeles Unified School District has released an internal school board review that offers an at-times stinging review of the process followed by school system officals in selecting Apple and Pearson as vendors for the district's controversial, $1 billion technology project. - Read More
By Sean Cavanagh | Education Week
The Los Angeles Unified School District has released an internal school board review that offers an at-times stinging review of the process followed by school system officals in selecting Apple and Pearson as vendors for the district's controversial, $1 billion technology project. - Read More