Pearson Education

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Pearson Education Inc.
Type Subsidiary of Pearson PLC
Founded 1998
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 PreK-20 educational publishing company of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. It was created in 1998 when Pearson purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster and merged it with its own education division, Addison–Wesley Longman.

Pearson Education is headquartered in Boston, MA, Glenview, IL, Chandler, AZ and 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:

[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.[2]

[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,[3] was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Inc.. Apple then sold it to Pearson Education in April 2006.[4]

ChancerySMS was acquired a month later, with the deal closing in May 2006.[5]

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[edit] Competitors

Pearson Education operates globally and has a range of competitors, both on a global basis as well as in each country it 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.

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