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Tackling The Future: CEO's Game Plan To End Gender Bias In Sports, Tech
By Michele Weldon, Contributor
Author, Journalist, Emerita Faculty at Northwestern University
We don’t need another example to know what’s up. Cam Newton, NFL star with the Carolina Panthers, had just recently disrespected
EDUCATION
Pearson Botches Mississippi Testing [Again]; Mississippi Immediately Severs Contract
By Mercedes Schneider, Contributor
Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
Education and testing mammoth Pearson has an established history in botchinghigh-stakes testing. Pearson did it again, in
EDUCATION
Faltering Pearson CEO Faces Stockholder Protests
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
What do you do with your CEO when your company loses record amounts of money and the value of its stock drops precipitously
EDUCATION
Pearson Profits Sag, Stock Plummets, U.S. President Sacked, and More Pearson Blues
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
At a September 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Summit world leaders adopted a series of goals including the promise
EDUCATION
Opt-Out Group Demands Parents be Told Their Rights
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
NYCOPTOUT has a series of Myths and Facts about the tests on its web page and instructions for how parents can opt their
EDUCATION
Pearson and TFA: Both Making Cuts; Both Spinning Similar Language
By Mercedes Schneider, Contributor
Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
She also has a second book, Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools?. Schneider is a southern Louisiana native, career
EDUCATION
Pearson GERM in the Philippines Is a Scare Story for the Rest of the World
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
But Riep explains that even the $500 a year per student tuition is far more than most economically disadvantaged Filipino
EDUCATION
Selling Competency-Based Education
By Peter Greene, Contributor
Teacher, blogger, tailgate trombonist
People are demanding to be released from the tyranny of the annual BS Test. And somehow, test manufacturers are going to try to look like heroes for offering even larger doses of what test opponents are trying to escape. Instead of of narrow, crappy data once a year, we'll be harvesting crappy data every day.
EDUCATION
Pearson and Partners Pay in L.A.
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
In April 2015, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced that it was canceling its agreement to install Pearson software on the 40,000 Apple iPads it distributed to students at a cost of $768 each. The entire LAUSD project has been a fiasco from the start.
EDUCATION
Why Progress for Girls Can't Wait
By A World at School, Contributor
A World at School is a diverse movement of youth, business lea...
They might not use that word, but when the mum talks of her little girl being able to read the books she was never able to, when the teenager dreams of being the first in her family to go to university, and when the young woman refuses to see a glass ceiling to her career... that is progress.
MEDIA
Pearson Unloads $731 Million Stake In The Economist
By Gabriel Arana
The proposed repurchase will strengthen the magazine's editorial independence, the company says.
EDUCATION
Why America Demonizes its Teachers -- Part 5: What's Wrong With Standardized Testing?
By Frank Breslin, Contributor
Retired High-School Teacher
No other advanced nation in the world evaluates its teachers on test scores or subjects it children to relentless testing and calls it "education"! Why, then, does America? The answer is simple -- there's money in it!
MEDIA
Pearson Reportedly Plans To Sell The Financial Times Newspaper
British publisher Pearson (PSON.L) has decided to sell the Financial Times newspaper to a global, digital news company, a
EDUCATION
Pearson Takes Big Hit in Continuing War Over Common Core
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
Last week Pearson lost its 40 to 50 million dollar contract to provide 3rd through 8th grade Common Core aligned high-stakes tests in New York State.
EDUCATION
International Movement to STOP the Pearson Octopus
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
Pearson's Chief Executive Officer John Fallon, forced to respond to dissidents, declared his enthusiastic "support free public education for every child around the world." However he did not offer to provide Pearson's educational services for free.
EDUCATION
Questor Marketing Research Advises Pearson Investors to SELL
By Mercedes Schneider, Contributor
Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
Sounds like Pearson CEO Fallon should have spent more time on US K-12 Education Plan B at least two years ago. At least.
EDUCATION
New York Algebra Teacher Writes Parents About the "Serious Disservice" of CC Tests
By Mercedes Schneider, Contributor
Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
The following text is from an email that New York parent Scott Strong received from his twins' eighth-grade teacher. It concerns the Pearson-crafted, allegedly Common-Core-aligned algebra exam administered in New York in 2015.
EDUCATION
Treating Kids Like Hamburgers, Pearson Exec 'Fesses' Up
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
You can't make this stuff up. On June 23, 2015 the New York Times reported on Pearson mass Common Core grading centers where a college degree but no special knowledge is required to grade tests and temporary employees make between $12 and $14 an hour plus small bonuses if they "hit daily quality and volume targets."
EDUCATION
"Funky Monkey" and Pearson Fail the Test
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
John Oliver nailed Pearson on his HBO Last Week Tonight show on Standardized Testing. If you have not seen it yet, clink the link and watch it. I laughed a lot but can't really say I enjoyed the show; it was too disturbing. It won't be funny until companies like Pearson are brought down.
EDUCATION
Seven More Reasons to Opt-Out of High-Stakes Testing
By Alan Singer, Contributor
Social studies educator, Hofstra University, my opinions, of c...
In case you need more reasons to oppose high-stakes Common Core tests, here are seven more reasons to opt-out.
EDUCATION
Is NYSUT/AFT Support for NY Opt Out Just the 2013 AFT "Moratorium" Warmed Over?
By Mercedes Schneider, Contributor
Public school teacher, education activist, PhD
What will it take for NYSUT and AFT to break up with intended testing conduit, Common Core?
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