Pearson Education
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| Type | Subsidiary of Pearson PLC |
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| Founded | 1748 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Dame Marjorie M. Scardino CEO |
| Industry | Education and Publishing |
| Products | (see below) |
| Employees | 40,000 (2009) |
| Website | www.pearsoned.com |
Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA.[1] It is part of Pearson PLC, which is headquartered in London, England, UK, with offices in Harlow and Oxford.
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[edit] Imprints
Pearson Education has a number of publishing imprints:
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[edit] Mergers and Acquisitions
Pearson Education acquired Harcourt Education Limited on May 21, 2007. The Harcourt imprints acquired in the transaction included Rigby, Heinemann, Ginn, Payne-Galway and Harcourt Assessment UK.[2]
[edit] Partnerships
Pearson Education 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.[3]
[edit] Technology products
- Livelessons Video training from technology experts
- Course Compass extensions to Blackboard Inc.'s
[edit] School Systems
In 2006, Pearson acquired Chancery SMS and PowerSchool. Both are web-based Student information systems for K-12 schools. These two products, along with state reporting systems, legacy products like SASI, and others, make up the School Systems division of Pearson.
PowerSchool, a company of 160 employees,[4] was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Inc.. Apple then sold it to Pearson Education in April 2006.[5]
ChancerySMS was acquired a month later, with the deal closing in May 2006.[6]
[edit] See also
[edit] Competitors
Pearson Education operates globally and has a range of competitors, both on a global basis as well as in each country in operates. In the United States of America, the main competitors in the K–12 (education) include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a subsidiary of EMPG and McGraw Hill Education a division of McGraw Hill Inc.. Internationally, competitors include: Macmillan Education, a division of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and EMPGI an affiliate of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
[edit] References
- ^ "Contact Us". http://www.pearsoned.com/pe/index.htm.
- ^ "Pearson acquires Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier". http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=73&pressid=2263. Retrieved on January 2009.
- ^ "New Agreement Makes eTextbooks Available to Students". http://www.coursesmart.com/aboutus?aboutview=media#pressedmap.
- ^ "Apple to Buy PowerSchool". http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/03/42412.
- ^ "Apple sells PowerSchool to Pearson". http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/05/25/powerschool/index.php.
- ^ "Pearson to acquire Chancery Software Ltd". http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=73&pressid=1898.
[edit] External links
- Pearson Education US
- Pearson School Systems
- Heinemann UK
- Peachpit Press
- Wharton School Publishing
- CourseSmart
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