Pearson Education
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| Pearson Education Inc. | |
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| Image:Pearson education.jpg | |
| Type | Subsidiary of Pearson PLC |
| Founded | 1748 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Dame Marjorie M. Scardino CEO |
| Industry | Education and Publishing |
| Products | (see below) |
| Employees | 29,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.pearsoned.com |
Pearson Education, Inc. is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
[edit] Imprints
Pearson Education has a number of publishing imprints:
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Pearson Education also acquired, on May 21st, 2007, Harcourt Education Limited, and its associated imprints, including Rigby, Heinemann, Ginn and Payne-Galway.
[edit] Technology products
- Livelessons Video training from technology experts
- Course Compass extensions to Blackboard Inc.'s
- PowerSchool, a web-based Student information system for K-12 schools. Founded in 1997, PowerSchool allows parents and students to see real-time attendance, homework, teacher-comments and grades. It and a company of 160 employees [1] was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Inc., who then sold it to Pearson Education in 2006. [2]
