A decision to give the education vendor Pearson a major, potentially lucrative contract for common-core testing is being challenged by a competitor that claims the award was made through a process ...

When a state commission meets for the first time on Tuesday to open a probe on the use of standardized testing in Maryland public schools, the elephant in the room could well be the testing vendor ...

BATH BEACH TO GRAVESEND — ASSEMBLYMEMBER WILLIAM COLTON (D-47) on Friday, Dec. 13, expressed concern over a delayed vote by the city’s Panel for Educational Policy on a new contract for the city’s ...

Compiled by Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director, FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing Editor’s Note: This timeline shows a range of testing problems for Pearson from the late 90s to ...

A top executive on the assessment side of the house at Pearson stopped by to chat with us the other day, and she issued an invitation to states, school districts, and organizations with expertise in ...

There’s more bad news for Pearson, the world’s largest education company and testing behemoth. The state of New York just announced that it was dropping Pearson as its testing vendor and instead was ...

When John Oliver, on his HBO “Last Week” show, did a recent segment on the problems with standardized testing, the one company that he mentioned at some length was Pearson — and that’s no surprise.

Inside Pearson's command center NJ Advance Media received a rare tour of Pearson's command center one day before the company's PARCC exams crashed in New Jersey. IOWA CITY-- Everything appeared to be ...

Pearson, the testing contractor for Minnesota, has reached a settlement with the state worth more than $5 million after students and educators faced a plague of testing issues this past spring. State ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. & BURNABY, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pearson VUE, the global leader in computer-based testing, and Teradici®, the creator of industry-leading PCoIP® technology and Cloud ...

Last week I got an email from a parent at my daughter’s school that warned of an upcoming “field test” my kid and her classmates would be asked to take. “Our third graders are scheduled for field ...