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Pearson Education
Parent company	Pearson plc
Founded	1844; 177 years ago
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London, England
Key people	Andy Bird(CEO)
Publication types	Textbooks
No. of employees	32,000 (2020)
Official website	pearsoned.com

Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, Scott Foresman, and others. Pearson is part of Pearson plc, which formerly owned the Financial Times. It claims to have been formed in 1840,^[1] with the current incarnation of the company created when Pearson plc purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster (including Prentice Hall and Allyn & Bacon) from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison-Wesley Longman, to form Pearson Education. Pearson Education was rebranded to Pearson in 2011 and split into an International and a North American division.

Although Pearson generates approximately 60 percent of its sales in North America, it operates in more than 70 countries. Pearson International is headquartered in London, and maintains offices across Europe, Asia and South America. Its online chat support is based in the Philippines. Pearson North America is headquartered at 330 Hudson in New York City, New York.^[2] It previously was located in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.^[3] Pearson International is headquartered at 80 Strand, London, UK. Pearson Italia SpA, also known as Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori, was created through the purchase of PBM Editori, which was, in turn, a merge of Paravia (based in Turin) and Bruno Mondadori (based in Milan).

Imprints[edit]

Pearson has a number of publishingimprints:

Addison-Wesley Professional (formerly Addison Wesley)^[4]
BBC Active^[4]
Causeway Press^[4]
Edexcel^[4]
enVision Math
Exam Cram
FT Press (formerly FT Prentice Hall)^[4]
Ginn & CompanyEdwin Ginn^[4]
Harvester Wheatsheaf^[4]
Heinemann (formerly Heinemann Education)^[4]
Oliver & Boyd^[4]
Pearson Custom Publishing^[5]
Pearson Longman (formerly Longman)^[4]
Pitman^[4]
Prentice Hall^[4]
Puffin^[4]
Rigby^[4]
VangoBooks (textbooks)
Wharton School Publishing, with Wharton School
York Notes^[4]

Logo[edit]

Pearson's logo is the unconventional symbol known as the interrobang (‽), a combination of a question mark and an exclamation point, meant to convey 'the excitement and fun of learning.'^[6]

Partnerships[edit]

Pearson has partnered with five other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart, a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform.^[7] In 2010, Pearson agreed to a 5-year, $32 million, contract with the New York State Department of Education to design tests for students in grades 4–8.

GreyCampus partnered with Pearson for higher-education teaching-learning solutions^[buzzword] under the Learningware brand.^[8]

Que Publishing, a publishing imprint of Pearson-based out of Seattle, partnered with AARP to develop and add to a series of technology books for seniors.^[9] The series, which includes My iPad For Seniors, and My Social Media for Seniors, are large-print and colourful.

'Pineapple-Gate'[edit]

In the spring of 2012, tests that Pearson designed for the NYSED were found to contain over 30 errors, which caused controversy. One of the most prominent featured a passage about a talking pineapple on the 8th Grade ELA test (revealed to be based on Daniel Pinkwater's The Story of the Rabbit and the Eggplant, with the eggplant changed into a pineapple). After public outcry, the NYSED announced it would not count the questions in scoring.^[10] Other errors included a miscalculated question on the 8th Grade Mathematics test regarding astronomical units, a 4th grade math question with two correct answers, errors in the 6th grade ELA scoring guide, and over twenty errors on foreign-language math tests.^[11] In May 2015, British comedian John Oliver analysed problems with Pearson's standardized tests and the company's greater lack of accountability on his HBO series Last Week Tonight.^[12]

Technology products[edit]

Download autocad 2010 64bit crack admint dll. Pearson's products include MyMathLab and Mastering Platform.^[13]

PowerSchool[edit]

In 2006, Pearson acquired PowerSchool, a student information system, from Apple. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.^[14] PowerSchool was a profitable product for Pearson. In 2014, it generated $97 million in revenue and $20 million in operating income. In 2015, Pearson sold PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners for $350 million cash.^[15]

Poptropica[edit]

In 2007 the company developed the youth-oriented online quest game Poptropica, through its Family Education Network. In 2015 Pearson's Family Education Network, along with Poptropica, were sold to the London-based investment group Sandbox Partners.^[16] Tekken 5 game for pc.

Cogmed[edit]

Pearson owns Cogmed, a brain fitness and working memory training program founded in 1999 by Swedish researcher Torkel Klingberg.^[17]^[18]

StatCrunch[edit]

In 2016 Pearson acquired StatCrunch, a statistical analysis tool created by Webster West in 1997. Pearson had already been the primary distributor of StatCrunch for several years.^[19]

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InformIT[edit]

InformIT, a subsidiary of Pearson Education, is an online book vendor and an electronic publisher of technology and education content.

InformIT
Parent company	Pearson Education
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Carmel, Indiana
Publication types	Books, e-books, and videos
Nonfiction topics	Technology
Imprints	Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, IBM Press, Pearson IT Certification, Prentice Hall Professional, Que Publishing, Sams Publishing, and VMware Press
Official website	informit.com

InformIT.com is one of the web sites of the Pearson Technology Group, and one of several sites in the InformIT Network. The site features free articles, blogs, and podcasts on IT topics and products, as well as a bookstore carrying all titles from these imprints. Publishing imprints represented on InformIT.com^[20] include Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press,^[21]