Pearson Education is the world's leading educational and professional publisher. The imprints that make up Pearson Education describe a rich educational and literary heritage. They stretch back to 1725 when Thomas Longman published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin. The Scott Foresman imprint, dating back to 1889, taught generations of Americans to read with the first Dick, Jane, and Spot stories. Law professor, Dr. Charles Gerstenberg, and his student, Richard Ettinger,founded Prentice Hall in 1913. Taking their mothers' maiden names—Prentice andHall—to name their new company, Gerstenberg and Ettinger would create the premierU.S. publisher of academic, business, and professional books. Addison-Wesley's reputation as a science and math publisher of note was firmlyestablished with the debut of the best-selling, Mechanics, in 1942. Today, Pearson Education has the most widely trusted and respected programs ineducational and professional publishing. The following chronology documents the historyand evolution of Pearson Education. - - -
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LONGMAN is founded in London by Thomas Longman I. A Longman family memberremains at the helm from 1724 until Mark Longman's death in 1972. 1725
LONGMAN publishes William Wollaston's The Religion of Nature Delineated,the first book ever typeset by Benjamin Franklin. 1727
LONGMAN publishes Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia: A Universal Dictionary of Arts andSciences. This has long been considered the parent of all encyclopedias, includingBritannica. 1755
LONGMAN publishes Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryof the English Language, the first comprehensive English-languagedictionary. 1834
LONGMAN publishes the first edition of The Storyof the Three Bears. In this version Goldilocks was a little old woman. 1844
LONGMAN publishes William Henry Fox Talbot's ThePencil of Nature. This pioneer of photography wrote about his methodsof producing photographs. This text, long considered to be the single most important book of photographs, was the first commercially publishedbook ever illustrated without the aid of an artist. 1852
LONGMAN publishes the first edition of Roget's Thesaurus (publishingrights transferred to Penguin in 1994). 1863
LONGMAN acquires the J.W. Parker publishing business and takes over publication of the landmark book, Gray's Anatomy, originally published in 1858. 1883
GINN & CO. first publishes Classics for Children, Robinson Crusoe, Plutarch's Lives and other standard classics studiedby each child before graduation from grammar school. Valued as models of literary art, their immediate success establishes them as forerunnersof the supplementary reading idea. Late 1880s
SILVER & CO.'s Summer Music Workshops are first introduced.The workshops for music teachers sponsored by Silver Burdett Company beganin 1885 and have continued every summer without interruption. 1886
SILVER & CO. enters the general textbook field withits series Normal Course in Reading. 1888
SILVER & CO. becomes Silver, Burdett & Co. when M. Thatcher Rogers sells his interests in the company to Frank W. Burdett. 1889
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO’s Erastus H. Scott and A.J. Albert form Albert and Scott and publish Bellum Helvecticum, a high school Latin text. 1897
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. buys S.C. Griggs and Companyand acquires Robert's Rules of Order. 1909
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. enters the elementary market with the Elson Grammar School Readers. 1911
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. publishes the first math textfor primary grades, First Journeys in Numberland. Scott Foresmanis the first publisher to use four-color printing, which revolutionizedtextbooks. 1913
PRENTICE HALL is formed by NYU Professor Charles W.Gerstenberg and student Richard P. Ettinger, naming the company in honor of their mothers' maiden names. 1915
PRENTICE HALL publishes the first book on taxation in loose-leaf format to respond to their colleagues' needs for completelyup-to-date information on rapidly changing laws. 1924
SIMON & SCHUSTER is created when two young entrepreneurs,Richard Simon and Max Schuster, pool their savings to publish a crosswordpuzzle book that becomes an instant best-seller and creates a nationwidecrossword puzzle craze. Simon & Schuster's "sower" logo becomes a publishing benchmark. 1930
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. publishes the first Dick andJane stories in the Elson-Gray Basic Readers. 1935
LONGMAN publishes the first English Language Teaching(ELT) dictionary. 1942
ADDISON-WESLEY publishes its first book, Francis WestonSears' Mechanics. 1950
ADDISON-WESLEY publishes its first computer programmingbook, Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler,and Gill. 1950
PRENTICE HALL forms its first Educational Book Division. 1956
ADDISON-WESLEY School Division is created and, withintwo years, the "Science Education Series" (later Science and Mathematics)with teacher training materials is published for the secondary, college preparatory market. 1962
HARPER & BROTHERS merges with Row, Peterson & Co. tobecome Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. 1962
PRENTICE HALL acquires the New York Institute of Finance. 1962
SILVER, BURDETT & CO. is acquired by Time, Inc. Silver,Burdett distributes Time-Life books to schools and libraries. 1965
SILVER BURDETT becomes the first division of the General Learning Corporation, an $18 million collaboration between Time, Inc. and General Electric. 1968
ADDISON-WESLEY establishes Cummings Publishing in MenloPark, CA. 1968
LONGMAN becomes part of Pearson plc, the London-basedinternational media company. 1968
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. publishes the first children'sthesaurus, In Other Words: A Beginning Thesaurus. 1969
ADDISON-WESLEY-IBM and Addison-Wesley begin the "IBMSystems Programming Series," establishing Addison-Wesley as a dominant publisher in the computer programming field. 1970
ADDISON-WESLEY acquires the premier science publisher,W.A. Benjamin Company, and publishes the flagship text, James D. Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene. 1974
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. purchases General LearningCorporation from Time, Inc. and General Electric. 1974
ADDISON-WESLEY General Books Division is created. 1977
ADDISON-WESLEY and Benjamin Cummings merge. 1978
PRENTICE HALL adds 80,000 square feet to its Salt LakeCity, UT-based book center, to support their expanding West Coast market. 1980
PRENTICE HALL's Trade Division and Spectrum Book Division merge into the new General Publishing Division. 1981
PRENTICE HALL and the American Marketing Association begin a joint venture to publish books for the marketing professional. 1982
PRENTICE HALL forms Editora Prentice-Hall de Brasil,Ltd. 1983
PRENTICE HALL College Division acquires English as a Second (and Foreign) Language (ESL) lines. 1984
PRENTICE HALL's Information Services Division launches its first electronic information system, PHINet. 1984
SIMON & SCHUSTER expands from consumer publishing intothe growing educational publishing market with the acquisition of Prentice Hall, a global leader in higher education with significant operations in professional and reference publishing, and Esquire, Inc., an elementary and high school educational publisher. 1985
LONGMAN-Uganda creates primary courses for an entire national system of education. 1985-1986
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Ginn & Company, a leading elementary and high school publisher, and Silver Burdett Company, an elementaryschool publisher. The companies are now known as Silver Burdett Ginn, a preeminent publisher of educational materials from pre-school through grade twelve. 1986-1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER expands its publishing operations with the acquisition of eleven educational operations (including Lange Medical Publications, Regents Publishing, CCD On Line, and American TeachingAids) as well as nine professional information publishers including Law & Business, Infosearch, Statewide Information Systems, Search West, Charles E. Simon, Master Data Center, and various Pergamon Institute of English and Yourdon Press titles. 1985
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. is acquired by Time, Inc. 1987
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires forty-one vocational titles in business education, fire science, advanced electronics, construction, and mechanical technology from John Wiley & Sons. The titles become part of the Prentice Hall operations of S&S's Higher Education Group. 1987
SIMON & SCHUSTER's College business textbook list isacquired from W.C. Brown. The transaction includes the transfer to Brown of Allyn & Bacon physical education, math, computer, and political science titles. 1988
ADDISON-WESLEY is purchased by Pearson plc, the global media company. 1988
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Quercus Corp., a junior andsenior high school special education publisher, and makes it part of Simon& Schuster's School Group.
1988
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires National Publishers, aproducer of vocational education books on travel and tourism and the medical service professions, making it part of Simon & Schuster's Higher Education Group. 1989
HARPER & ROW acquires Scott, Foresman (now including the previously merged Little, Brown & Company). William Collins plc and Harper & Row merge. 1989
ADDISON-WESLEY purchases Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Macdonald Children's Books, Macdonald Educational, Beehive, and Purnell imprints, including approximately 1,500 reference, classroom, and fictional titles for children and young adults published in the U.K., from U.K.-based Maxwell Communication Corporation plc. These titles become part of Simon & Schuster's International Group. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires "Vacation Church School Program," a religious textbook program, from Harper & Row. These titles are now published by Silver Burdett & Ginn, as part of Simon & Schuster's School Group. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Fearon Education and Fearon Teacher Aids from David S. Lake Publishers. Fearon Education becomes part of Simon & Schuster's School Group; Fearon Teacher Aids becomes part of S&S's Supplementary Education Group. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires a list of approximately one hundred business and economic titles from Philip Allan of Oxford, England. They will continue to be published under the Philip Allan imprint. The list becomes part of Simon & Schuster International's Academic Division. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires a list of twenty four accounting and auditing titles aimed at the accounting market from Shepards/McGraw-Hill,Inc. They will be published by Prentice Hall Business and Professional Publishing unit. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires psychology-related titlesfrom the Psychology Corporation. The titles become part of S&S's HigherEducation Group. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires occupational and remedial mathematics book programs from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. They become part of Prentice Hall College Book Division. 1989
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Ellis Horwood, a British publisher of academic, scientific, and technical titles. Ellis Horwood is a major U.K. publisher of computer science, mathematics, engineering, and science titles. It becomes part of Simon & Schuster's International Group. 1990
ADDISON-WESLEY formalizes an affiliation with Editions du Renouveau Pèdagogique, Inc. (ERPI), a prominent Quebec publisher. 1990
ADDISON-WESLEY acquires Cuisenaire Company of America, noted for math manipulatives. 1990
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Janus Book Publishers, Inc., publisher of both the Janus Books and the Alemany Press imprints. The JanusBooks imprint will be combined with Fearon Education and Quercus Corporationto form Simon & Schuster Special Needs Publishers, a new division withinits Supplementary Education Group. The Alemany Press imprint will become part of Prentice Hall Regents, a unit of Simon & Schuster's Higher Education Group. 1990
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires the Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC), a leading multimedia educational publisher. 1991
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Macmillan Computer Publishing, the world's largest computer book publisher, from Macmillan, Inc. 1991
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires the Emergency Medical Services(EMS) titles from Morton Publishing Company. These titles will be publishedby the Prentice Hall vocational education unit. 1994
ADDISON-WESLEY acquires Peachpit Press, a computer trade publisher. 1994
LONGMAN publishes the Longman Interactive EnglishDictionary, the first English Language Teaching (ELT) dictionary onCD-ROM. 1994
LONGMAN launches the "Look Ahead" multimedia series (with the BBC and British Council) to teach the world English. 1994
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires U.S. publisher MacmillanPublishing, bolstering the company's strengths in consumer, college, and reference publishing, while tripling the size of its juvenile publishing business. The company also acquires one thousand English Language Training (ELT) titles from separately owned Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan Publishing USA becomes the umbrella name for the company's reference operations. 1994
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires the German computer bookpublishing operations of Markt&Technik, providing entree to the world's second largest computer market and establishing a stepping-stone for European expansion. 1994
SIMON & SCHUSTER announces that Viacom, Inc. has completedits acquisition of its parent organization, Paramount Communications, Inc. 1994
COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION introduces "SuccessMaker"to schools throughout the U.K. The interactive courseware is now used by nearly two million students in six countries worldwide. 1994
SIMON & SCHUSTER's Education Group moves employees to new state-of-the-art facilities in Upper Saddle River, NJ. 1994
SIMON & SCHUSTER launches the new digital imprint, Macmillan Digital USA, signaling an ongoing major commitment to electronicpublishing leadership. This imprint will produce reference and computer book content in electronic formats. 1995
ADDISON-WESLEY merges with Longman Publishing to create Addison Wesley Longman. 1995
ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN establishes a publishing partnership with JavaSoft, the Sun Microsystems division that developed the Java programming language. 1995
SCOTT FORESMAN & CO. establishes Celebration Press, a new supplementary imprint. 1995
SIMON & SCHUSTER's Higher Education site (http://www.prenhall.com/)is the first Internet site from a college publisher. 1995
COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION (CCC) and the SmithsonianInstitution agree to develop consumer CD-ROMs. 1995
COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION (CCC) launches "Choosing Success," a bold in-school multimedia program to help teens make the right choices. WIRED magazine calls it "the most inspired piece of educational software ever created. 1995
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Educational Management Group (EMG), which will deliver customized multimedia instructional materials and live interactive television to nearly two million students through a global telecommunications network. 1995
MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING USA merges with AlphaBooks to form Que, the world's largest computer book imprint. 1995
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Ziff-Davis Press, the book publishing arm of Ziff-Davis Publishing, which publishes a list of seventy five books covering technology, science, and health topics. S&S also enters into a strategic alliance with Ziff-Davis to develop new computer books bearing Ziff-Davis magazine brand names such as PC Magazine, PC Computing, MacUser and MacWEEK. 1995
MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING USA releases the first of one hundred and sixty one titles related to Microsoft's Windows 95. MCP will ship more than one million reference and tutorial books linked to the new operating system. 1995
SIMON & SCHUSTER announces plans to open two South American offices located in Colombia and Brazil. 1995
MACMILLAN PUBLISHING USA'S BradyGAMES launches "Brady's Game Basement," an Internet site. 1995
MACMILLAN DIGITAL USA (MDU) release its first fourCD-ROM titles. 1996
ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN acquires HarperCollins EducationalPublishers, as part of AWL's Higher Education Publishing Group.< 1996
SCOTT FORESMAN-ADDISON WESLEY School Publishing Group is formed. 1996
MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING USA (MCP) acquires The Waite Group, Inc., adding a backlist of sixty cutting-edge titles on programminglanguages and emerging technologies, and continuing MCP's West Coast expansion. 1996
SIMON & SCHUSTER's Ten Minute Guide to Windows 95 is the publisher's first book to be locally published in China. Through six local partnerships, S&S publishes more than one hundred computer book titles in China in 1996. 1996
SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires Mergent Technologies Group,providing software for the growing workplace skills and adult literacy market in 1,600 learning center installations in the U.S. Mergent will operate as a division of Computer Curriculum Corporation, to be renamed Invest Learning. 1996
MACMILLAN PUBLISHING USA and Cisco Systems, which suppliessolutions for corporate intranets and the Internet, create Cisco Press. This imprint will publish books for Internet-working and networking professionals. 1996
NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE (NYIF) and AIC Conferences(AIC) form a joint venture to develop a worldwide financial training business, headquartered in Singapore. NYIF's financial training for international commercial banking, securities, and business professionals will initially span twelve countries. 1997
SIMON & SCHUSTER forms the K-12 Publishing Division, comprised of Silver Burdett Ginn (SBG), Prentice Hall School, and Globe Fearon. 1997
SIMON & SCHUSTER launches "eDscape," the most comprehensive on-line educational service available for K-12 students and teachers. "eDscape" combines the curriculum and teacher training resources of Computer Curriculum Corporation, Educational Management Group, Prentice Hall, Silver Burdett Ginn, Globe Fearon, and Allyn & Bacon. 1997
PRENTICE HALL BUSINESS PUBLISHING announces that two of their textbook authors were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science: Robert Merton of the Harvard Business School (co-author of Finance), and Myron S. Scholes of the Stanford Business School (co-author of Taxes and Business). 1998
SIMON & SCHUSTER's parent company, Viacom, announces plans to sell all of the Simon & Schuster educational operations, including Prentice Hall, Allyn & Bacon, and Macmillan Publishing USA. 1998
PEARSON plc makes the successful bid for purchase of the S&S educational businesses, and creates Pearson Education. 1998
PEARSON EDUCATION is officially launched throughoutthe world. 1999
PEARSON EDUCATION introduces Open Book Publishing, the first of its kind quality-assurance initiative, with the goal of one hundred percent factual accuracy in its textbooks. 1999
PEARSON plc, as part of the U.S. Department of Justice consent decree from the Simon & Schuster acquisition, sells titles in biology/anatomy, physiology, engineering, computer science, mathematics, economics/finance, social science, and teacher education. 1999
PEARSON plc sells Jossey-Bass, publisher of books, periodicals, and on-line products on key topics of business management, health care, psychology, and other professional topics. 1999
PEARSON plc sells medical publisher, Appleton & Lange. 1999
PEARSON plc sells Master Data Center. 1999
PEARSON EDUCATION partners with WebCT, a leading on-line course management system, to supply content from Pearson Education college textbooks to WebCT's newly launched e-Learning Hub. The e-Learning Hub will bring critical course content, an active community, and a unique educational commerce to more than 1,000 colleges and universities and more than 4.3 million students worldwide. 1999
PEARSON plc sells Macmillan Library Reference USA andMacmillan General Reference USA. 1999
PEARSON EDUCATION announces plans to establish a consolidated office for the Higher Education and Professional Group. The new office space will be located in the Back Bay section of downtown Boston, MA. 1999
PEARSON plc announces the Canadian government's approval of their application to acquire control of Prentice Hall Canada, Inc. and to merge it with its Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. business in Canada. 1999
MACMILLAN USA, the world's largest computer book publisher,announces the launch of its information technology portal, InformIT, a complete on-line community delivering information, technology, reference, training, news, and opinion to IT professionals, students, and corporateusers around the world. 1999
PEARSON TECHNOLOGY GROUP is created, aligning PearsonPTR and Macmillan USA under one entity, creating the world's largest providerof technology content. PTG will house such premier imprints as Macmillan Software, Que, Sams, BradyGAMES, Macmillan Reference, Hayden, Prentice Hall PTR, Peachpit Press, Addison-Wesley Professional, New Riders, Cisco, and Adobe Press. 2000
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the creation of the K-12 Education Technology Group. The K-12 Education Technology Group, which includes Computer Curriculum Corporation and the K-12 e-Ventures group, will place a greater focus on the use of technology in the delivery of elementary and secondary instruction. 2000
PEARSON EDUCATION announces plans to launch an international business book publishing operation that will bring together the resources of its two subsidiaries, Prentice Hall and the Financial Times, along with a strategic alliance with Reuters (the international news-wire service). This new venture, Financial Times-Prentice Hall, will include four new publishing units: FT-PH Books, Reuters Books, ft.com Books, and Prentice Hall Professional and Technical Reference Business Publishing. 2000
PEARSON EDUCATION and LessonLab, a pioneer in large-scale research and development of rich-media technologies for teaching and professional development, announce a partnership agreement to deliver LessonLab’s online platform to Pearson Education’s K-12 customers. 2000
PEARSON EDUCATION acquires NCS, leader in the education, testing, assessment and complex data management markets. 2001
PEARSON PRENTICE HALL launches iText—interactive textbooks—on its SuccessNet.com online platform. 2001
PEARSON BROADBAND introduces KnowledgeBox™ for U.S. K-6 market, offeringready-to-use and tested media lessons for teachers and students. 2001
NCS PEARSON acquires the assets of Reid Psychological Systems, and will combine theacquired company with its NCS London House™, a provider of recruitment andemployee selection tools, to form Reid London House™. 2002
NCS PEARSON launches Pearson Professional Testing, a new organization dedicated to meetingthe growing demand for a high-quality testing solution in the professional licensureand certification market and to expand these services worldwide. 2002
PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL marks expansion into Career and Technology Educationwith Purchase of Interstate Publishers, leaders in agriculture education. 2002
PEARSON EDUCATION acquires DDC Publishing, a provider of software trainingtitles to the high school and post-secondary markets. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the launch ofResearch Navigator™ (www.researchnavigator.com),a new academic research destination that incorporates archival content from TheNew York Times and EBSCO, an academic journal and abstract collection. 2003
PEARSON VUE makes several key announcements, including its selection by IBM Corporation to expand the delivery of IBM certification exams; and that it will be the provider of computer-based testing for the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Internal Medicine. 2003
PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announce an agreement to collaborate on elementary and middle school science curricula. 2003
PEARSON and Edexcel, one of the UK's leading examining and awarding bodies, announce an agreement to modernizeexamination marking and processing in the UK. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATION announces it will combine twoof its key companies: Pearson Education Technologies and Pearson DigitalLearning will be joined under the Pearson Digital Learning name effectiveimmediately. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the creation of PiPress, an imprint of Pearson Technology Group, to create compelling sciencebooks for a mass audience. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT announces that ithas been selected by the College Board to provide scoring for the newWriting test of the SAT beginning in March 2005. 2003
PEACHPIT and cable TV network TechTV join forcesto publish books under the TechTV Press imprint. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATION acquires LessonLab, a pioneerin education research and state-of-the-art technologies for teaching andprofessional development. 2003
PEARSON VUE is selected as the prime contractorfor a seven-year, $200 million contract to develop and administer the GMATexam worldwide, beginning in January 2006. It also signed a nine-yeartesting agreement with the US National Association of Securities Dealers,beginning in 2004. 2003
PEARSON announces that its professional testingbusiness has been awarded a seven-year contract with the Driving StandardsAgency (DSA) of Great Britain and the Driver andVehicle Testing Agency (DVTA) of Northern Ireland. 2003
PEARSON EDUCATION acquires Scholar Inc., whichprovides comprehensive data management tools and solutions designedspecifically for the U.S. K-12 education market. 2004
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS signs $180 millionfive-year contract with five one-year renewal periods to help the U.S.Department of Education consolidate services providing federal loans forstudents in higher education. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvaniaannounce the launch of Wharton School Publishing, an innovative new playerin global business publishing. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION and Safari® Books Onlineintroduce a comprehensive, low-priced digital textbook program calledSafariX Textbooks Online, a new option to the print textbook, savingstudents 50% off the suggested list price of the print equivalent edition. 2004
PEARSON VUE announces important contractextensions: a three-year contract extension, valued at $40 million, withMicrosoft Corp. to continue test delivery of computer-based Microsoftcertification exams; a three-year contract extension with IBM to continuetest delivery of computer-based IBM certification exams; and a three-yearcontract with the American College of SportsMedicine to provide computer-based Personal Trainer exams. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the acquisition ofKnowledge Analysis Technologies, a company that provides products andservices based on proprietary and patented machine-learning technology fortext understanding. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION and IBM announce an exclusiveworldwide strategic partnership to publish technology and business booksunder the IBM Press™ imprint, in English and foreign languages, and inboth print and electronic formats. 2004
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS becomes one of fivevendors awarded a contract vehicle (with an estimated value of up to $150million over five years) by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)to provide multi-channel contact center services to GSA and other federalagencies. 2004
FAMILY EDUCATION NETWORK announces the launch of HomeSchoolerNetwork.com,a Web site offering a wide variety of educational materials for the 1.1million U.S.children now being homeschooled each year. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION debuts the PearsonChoices program, providing the capability to accesscourse material through a variety of print and online options. 2004
PEARSON SCHOOL SYSTEMS (PSS) announces the acquisition of altonaEd, creators ofthe School Information & Performance System (SiPs), a next generationof student information technology. 2004
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS announces that it has been selected by the LondonBorough of Southwark as its partner for a ten-year contract for its newCustomer Service Centre (CSC). 2004
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS is awarded a multi-year contract by the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a proactive, unifiedpersonalized customer outreach approach to communicate public healthinformation to health professionals and the public. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION launches the Progress Assessment Series™ (PASeries™), the first formativeassessment products designed to forecast student growth toward stateperformance standards. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the acquisition of Dominie Press, Inc., Carlsbad, Calif.,a leading independently-owned supplemental publishing company serving theK-8 education market. 2004
PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN teams up with NASA for the Science in Space Challenge,offering U.S. students the opportunity for their own science and technologyinvestigations to be conducted on a future space mission by a NASAAstronaut. 2004
PEARSON EDUCATION commissions 21 independentscientific research studies to validate the effectiveness of its K-12mathematics, reading, and science products, and designed to meet theresearch design criteria of the Department of Education's What WorksClearinghouse (WWC). 2005
January
PEARSON VUE announces an exclusive, three-yearcontract with the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, Inc. toprovide computer-based test delivery of the Advanced Competence in MedicalOptometry examination. 2005
January
PEARSON VUE announces an exclusive, three-year contract with the National Board of Examiners in Optometry, Inc. to provide computer-based test delivery of the Advanced Competence in Medical Optometry examination. 2005
January
PEARSON announces that Peter Jovanovich, chief executive of Pearson Education and a member of theboard, has decided to go on long-term medical leave. 2005
February
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS is awarded acontract by The U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA),valued at $80 million with nine one-year options, which combines providing information tocollege students about financial aid, processing aid applications anddisbursing grants and loans. 2005
March
PEARSON EDUCATION’s new PASseries™ (Progress Assessment Series™) formative assessment products are selected by theHawaii Department of Education as part of a pilot program for evaluatingassessment product. 2005
March
PEARSON LEARNING GROUP introduces two new versions of its QuickReads® technology: Version 3 provides enhanced speechrecognition and additional support features; a new Network Edition enableseducators to track student reading and comprehension progress at a district level. 2005
March
PEARSON PRENTICE HALL launches Prentice Hall Classics, reintroducingpopular textbook titles for grades 6-12 with updated copyrights and reduced pricing. 2005
March
PEARSON PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS is awarded acontract with the American Red Cross to design and deploy a nationaltraining program for the staff and volunteers of non-governmentalorganizations active in disaster response to incidents of Weapons of MassDestruction/Terrorism. 2005
April
PEARSON EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT increases scoringcapacity with the addition of three new scoring centers and two temporarycenters to provide a full range of custom assessment services for statesand large school districts; PEM also announces the availability online ofthe first reports in its series of educational assessment industryresearch papers. They can be accessed at http://www.pearsonedmeasurement.com/research/index.htm. 2005
May
PEARSON HIGHER EDUCATION and Audible, Inc. announce a strategic alliance to deliver innovative audio learning products to the higher education market. The audio products will be available for download to MP3 players, PDA's, and smart wireless devices. 2005
May
PEARSON EDUCATION acquires the assets of Scott/Jones, Inc., publishers of college textbooks in computing and computer science. 2005
May
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the formation of the Strategic Partnerships Group within Pearson School Companies. The group will partner with U.S. school districts to develop customized solutions intended to improve student performance and related professional development. 2005
May
PEARSON VUE announces a contract with the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence to provide computer-based test delivery of the Passport to Teaching certification exams 2005
June
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the acquisition of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) Institute, which trains K-12 educators on a research-based approach that helps teach academic content to English language learners while promoting their English language development. 2005
June
PEARSON EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT announces that it was awarded a $279 million, five-year contract to provide student assessment and testing services to the Texas Education Agency. The Texas contract, which covers the largest and most comprehensive statewide testing program in the country, includes managing all aspects of the Texas assessment program. 2005
June
PEARSON EDUCATION announces an agreement with DeVry University, Inc. to customize Pearson's MyMathLab online courses for DeVry students nationwide. The MyMathLab homework and tutorial platform will be implemented at the 69 DeVry locations where the university offers its undergraduate programs and available to 43,000 students enrolled in both onsite and online programs. 2005
June
PEARSON announces the acquisition of AGS Publishing from WRC Media for $270 million in cash. The acquisition strengthens Pearson's education business in two fast-growing segments of the U.S. School market: testing and publishing for students with special educational needs 2005
June
PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN's Early Reading Intervention identifies at-risk children in kindergarten and first grade (age 5 and 6) and provides intervention to improve reading achievement. 2005
August
PEARSON DIGITAL LEARNING teams with Ball State University and Paws Inc., the creative group behind the Garfield the Cat comic strip, to create a free, interactive online learning environment. 2005
September
PEARSON SCHOOL SYSTEMS and Computer Automation Systems, Inc. announce a partnership agreement in which Pearson School Systems will offer CAS's industry-leading SEAS(TM) solution with its student management solutions to school districts nationwide. 2005
September
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS announces the grand opening of its newest customer service facility in Chester, Virginia to support 1-800-MEDICARE. 2005
November
The California State Board of Education unanimously approves PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN'S innovative curriculum--History Social Science for California for K-5 as part of the California 2005 History-Social Science Adoption resources. 2005
November
The California State Board of Education unanimously approves PEARSON PRENTICE HALL'S standards-based three-level series--Ancient Civilizations, Medieval and Early Modern Times, and America: History of Our Nation as part of the California 2005 History-Social Science Adoption. 2005
November
PEARSON VUE announces an exclusive, five-year contract with the LNAT Consortium Ltd. to provide computer-based test delivery of the National Admissions Test for Law (LNAT). 2005
November
PEARSON SCHOOL COMPANIES announces the formation of Pearson Achievement Solutions, based on the foundation of LessonLab, Pearson's existing professional development and school change business. Pearson Achievement Solutions will focus on delivering customized solutions for school improvement, including comprehensive teacher professional development aligned with research, assessment and instructional programs, to schools and school districts. Integral to this new organization is the acquisition of Co-nect, the leading provider of data-driven professional development solutions that help schools and districts manage and measure effective instructional improvement. 2006
January
PEARSON VUE begins delivery of the Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) through its newly expanded test center network of more than 400 testing centers in nearly 100 countries around the world. 2006
January
PEARSON VUE announces an exclusive, three-year contract with the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists to provide both test development and test delivery services for the computer-based RPSGT™ Examination for Polysomnographic Technologists. . 2006
January
PEARSON PRENTICE HALL and O'Reilly Media announce that Pearson is distributing O'Reilly's books-in both print and electronic form-to the U.S. and Canada higher education markets. 2006
January
PEARSON KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES announces the launch of WriteToLearn™, a Web-based learning tool that helps students develop writing and reading comprehension skills. 2006
January
PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING and Foreign Affairs launch an innovative program-Among Nations: Readings in International Relations-that enables educators to customize textbooks for their international relations courses 2006
January
PEARSON announces the acquisition of Promissor, a leading professional testing business, from Houghton Mifflin Company for $42m in cash. Promissor is a leading provider of licensing examinations for state and federal regulatory bodies in the US, and has a growing presence in the UK. Pearson will combine Promissor with Pearson VUE, its existing professional testing company. 2006
March
PEARSON EDUCATION announces that the combining of several of its assessment product, service and technology businesses together under the Pearson Assessments name. The businesses are Pearson Assessments, Pearson NCS, and the assessment business of AGS Publishing. 2006
March
PEARSON PRENTICE HALL publishes seventh edition of Janson's History of Art: The Western Tradition, authored by six distinguished experts, who narrate the history of art for today's students. 2006
March
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS announces an agreement to acquire Blueprint Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise architecture and iterative development solutions and services. 2006
March
PEARSON EDUCATION launches Success Tracker, an online, whole-class assessment and remedial management system aligned with textbook content and state standards and designed to help teachers monitor Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and provide easy-to-use tools to help students improve. It is available from Pearson Scott Foresman and Pearson Prentice Hall as part of several K-12 curriculum offerings. 2006
March
PEARSON GOVERNMENT SOLUTIONS announces it has been selected as part of the Lockheed Martin-led team that will develop and deploy the Decennial Response Integration System (DRIS) to carry out the 2010 Census. Pearson will oversee the DRIS data capture management for paper forms. It also will perform all citizen contact management operations for Lockheed Martin. 2006
April
To honor the late Dr. Neil Campbell, PEARSON EDUCATION announces a major development fund and fellowship program for teachers in partnership with Project Exploration, a Chicago-based nonprofit group. The Neil Campbell Fund for Teacher Development and Neil Campbell Fellowships offers specialized training to science teachers in the greater Chicago Public Schools and through a newly created Summer Field Institute for Teachers. 2006
April
PEARSON ANALYTIC SOLUTIONS (formerly KEI Pearson), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pearson Government Solutions, is awarded a $22.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to create an Enterprise Business Modernization (EBM) System.). 2006
April
PEARSON EDUCATION announces an agreement to acquire Effective Educational Technologies (EET), a privately held company based in Cambridge, Mass., that developed the next-generation online assessment and tutorial programs MasteringPhysics™, MasteringGeneralChemistry™, and MasteringAstronomy™. 2006
April
PEARSON EDUCATION's Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics 2005 is selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Education's Evaluation of Early Mathematics Curricula, a large-scale study created to evaluate the effectiveness of several math programs that show promise for improving math achievement in the early elementary grades. 2006
April
PEARSON announces that it has agreed to acquire National Evaluation Systems, Inc (NES), the leading provider of customized state assessments for teacher certification in the US. It works under contract with state education agencies, developing and administering licensure tests for prospective teachers who want to enter the profession, teach a new subject or work in a new state. 2006
April
PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN introduces Sidewalks, a reading intervention program designed to provide explicit and intensive instruction to meet the individual needs of struggling readers in grades K-5. 2006
April
PEARSON AGS GLOBE officially announces the AMP Reading System , a research-based system for striving middle- and high-school readers who are reading at a third- to fifth-grade level. Authored by Dr. Timothy Shanahan, president of the International Reading Association, AMP is designed to help kids comprehend basic reading concepts in a more interactive and engaging way than other programs. 2006
May
PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN launches Reading Street, an innovative pre-K-6 reading program that marks the first time an educational publisher has developed reading curriculum specifically aligned to federal requirements and incorporating a wide range of research-based learning strategies. Reading Street is the first program tailored specifically to the requirements of Reading First, a nationwide mandate to enable all students to become successful early readers as created by the NCLB. 2006
May
PEARSON sponsors event launching Jumpstart’s “Read for the Record” at the International Reading Association Annual Convention. Supported by Pearson, Starbucks Coffee Company and American Eagle Outfitters, Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign has a goal of setting the world record for the number of children reading the same book with an adult on the same day. The Campaign will take place on Thursday, August 24 and the official campaign book is a limited custom edition of Penguin’s The Little Engine That Could . 2006
May
PEARSON announces the acquisition of an 80% stake in Paravia Bruno Mondadori Editori (PBM), one of Italy's leading educational publishing companies. 2006
May
PEARSON and Apple® announce an expansion of their relationship to enhance teaching and learning through technology. Pearson will acquire PowerSchool, Apple’s award-winning student information systems (SIS) division, and develop educational content for teachers and students compatible with iPod®. 2006
May
PEARSON announces the acquisition of Chancery Software Ltd., a leading provider of student information systems (SIS) in the K-12 School market. 2006
June
PEARSON announces the acquisition of ELLIS, a provider of English language training software for kindergarten through adult learners. The company plans to integrate ELLIS into its Pearson Digital Learning (PDL) business unit, a leading provider of proven, research-based technology solutions for preK-12 learners. 2006
July
PEARSON announces Scott Foresman's History/Social Science for California, which blends printed text, digital, and activities-based instructional methods that focus on state standards. Seven of the largest local districts within the Los Angeles Unified School District recently adopted the program, and Pearson estimates that close to fifty percent of all K-5 students in the state will learn history/social studies from this innovative new program. 2006
September
PEARSON announces that Pearson people and businesses helped to raise more than $1,000,000 to support Jumpstart in the course of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign. In addition to underwriting and publishing a custom limited edition of The Little Engine That Could sold at U.S. Starbucks Coffee Company stores, people volunteered from Pearson’s 40 businesses and enterprises across America on August 24th, helping to set the Guinness World Record for the number of children reading a single book on the same day. 2006
September
PEARSON EDUCATION was named to Working Mother magazine’s prestigious list of “100 Best Companies for Working Mothers” for the seventh consecutive year. Pearson Education was one of eight New Jersey companies to make the annual list citing corporations that recognize the value of meeting the needs of working families. 2006
October
PEARSON announces strategic alliance with Audible, Inc. to distribute VangoNotes, audio study guides tied to Pearson textbooks. 2006
October
PEARSON announces the formation of the Hispanic Leadership Council on Education. The 17 inaugural members include superintendents from several of the nation's leading school districts. 2006
November
PEARSON, under its Wharton School Publishing imprint, announces plans for the first community-driven "networked" book on business best practices, We Are Smarter Than Me (http://www.wearesmarter.org). More than a million business professionals and scholars, including faculty, students, alumni, and newsletter recipients from two of the nation's most prestigious graduate schools of business, the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, receive messages inviting them to collectively write and edit the book. 2006
November
In recognition of a lifetime of achievement, the Association of Education Publishers inducts PETER JOVANOVICH into its Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 2007
January
PEARSON KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES announces at the 2007 Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) that Pearson Digital Learning will offer WriteToLearn™ as a complementary product to its NovaNET® courseware. Launched in January 2006, WriteToLearn is PKT's Web-based learning tool that helps students develop writing and reading comprehension skills. 2007
March
PEARSON HIGHER EDUCATION works with Google to help provide students with direct access to video study tools by making content available for download at www.video.google.com. . Lecture videos and Test Prep videos to accompany Prealgebra (fifth edition) by market-leading mathematics author Elayn Martin-Gay are posted at Google Video and can be downloaded to a PC, Mac, video iPod, or Sony PSP. 2007
April
PEARSON KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES launches WriteToLearn™ 3.0, the newest update of its innovative Web-based learning tool for developing writing and reading comprehension skills. Offering both summary and essay writing activities, WriteToLearn now provides students with expanded feedback on their essays and gives teachers a tool for targeting their students with ability-appropriate reading passages. 2007
May
PEARSON announces that it has agreed to acquire Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education International from Reed Elsevier for $950m in cash. The acquisition extends Pearson's position as the world's leading education company by adding international reach, complementary products and new capabilities. The transaction does not include Harcourt's School basal and supplementary publishing businesses. 2007
May
PEARSON announces that it has agreed to acquire eCollege®, a leader in the fast-growing US online distance learning market. Founded in 1996, eCollege works with its partner educational institutions to design, build and support online degree, certificate, diploma and professional development programs. The company also provides a suite of support services which include hosting, help desk, course development, technical consulting, instructional design and faculty training. 2007
May
WRITETOLEARN™, the innovative Web-based learning tool for developing writing and reading comprehension skills, is the winner of a 2007 Best Educational Software (BESSIE) Award. WriteToLearn™ from Pearson Knowledge Technologies was recognized as the best language arts Web site in the "Upper Elementary" category. 2007
May
PEARSON and Jumpstart are honored with a Cause Marketing Halo Award, America's highest honor for companies and causes that do well by doing good. Cause marketing is the strategy of building mutually beneficial alliances between companies and causes. Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign received the prestigious award for the Best Joint Message Program at the fifth annual Cause Marketing Forum conference. 2007
June
PEARSON EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT announces that it delivered more than two million secure online tests in the first six months of 2007 – more than double the volume delivered in 2006. 2007
June
PEARSON SCHOOL SYSTEMS announces the launch of PowerTeacher, its new Web gradebook and classroom toolset. PowerTeacher combines its newly developed gradebook — designed to work the way teachers work — with its existing teacher portal. 2007
June
PEARSON EDUCATION and the Pearson Foundation announce the launch of the Digital Literacy Fellowship Program, an initiative designed specifically to promote the use of digital technologies among teachers who serve the nation’s Hispanic communities. The Digital Literacy Fellowship Program, an extension of the Pearson Foundation’s Digital Arts Alliance, makes it possible for more than 15,000 students and their teachers each year to experience firsthand how laptop computers, video production equipment, and the latest mobile-phone technologies are changing the ways young people can organize, present, and share information and issues that matter to them. 2007
June
PEARSON EDUCATION announces the formation of the Pearson Student Advisory Board, an initiative that will bring college student representatives together with the company’s leadership in an effort to share perspectives and establish a dialogue on higher education and the important issues and goals of today’s college students. 2007
June
THE PEARSON FOUNDATION announces a series of new partnerships, programs, and funding commitments with members of the Digital Arts Alliance, the consortium that promotes digital arts in K-12 education through fully funded and staffed programs delivered directly to schools and community centers nationwide. The Pearson Foundation is the founding partner in the Digital Arts Alliance. 2007
June
PEARSON KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES’ WriteToLearn™ is the winner of a 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP). The Web-based learning tool is honored as the best "Curriculum: Reading and Language Instruction Web Site for Grades 6-8." 2007
July
PEARSON becomes the first education company to receive the ECS Corporate Award, issued by the Education Commission of the States to recognize sustained commitment to, and substantial investment in, improving public education. 2007
September
PEARSON people help set a new world record for the largest “shared reading experience” as part of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record 2007, breaking the world record for the number of people reading the same book on a single day. Aimed at bringing awareness to the early literacy crisis, the Campaign raises more than $1 million to further the non-profit organization Jumpstart’s work with at-risk preschoolers. Pearson and its 20,000 staff of the Financial Times Group, The Penguin Group, and Pearson Education participated in thousands of individual events throughout the U.S. and around the world, reading a custom limited edition of Penguin Young Readers children’s classic The Story of Ferdinand. 2007
October
WRITETOLEARN™ adds the "Technology & Learning" magazine's 2007 Award of Excellence to its growing list of honors. The award program recognizes Pearson's Web-based learning tool for developing writing and reading comprehension skills as one of the year's most innovative applications. 2007
October
BY KIDS FOR KIDS and the PEARSON FOUNDATION announce the “Digital Arts Challenge,” a nationwide digital arts competition created to recognize and reward exceptional young storytellers who make use of digital technologies. Sponsored by The Pearson Foundation’s Digital Arts Alliance, the Challenge gives teens the chance to share ideas using digital video and other new forms of digital expression. 2007
October
PEARSON unveils WriteToLearn™ 4.0, the newest update of its award-winning Web-based learning tool for developing writing and reading comprehension skills. This new release includes more than 200 reading passages from Pearson’s popular Scott Foresman Reading Street, a reading program designed to help elementary teachers build readers through motivating and engaging literature, scientifically research-based instruction and reliable teaching tools. 2007
October
eCOLLEGE announces a partnership with San Mateo County Community College District (SMCCCD) in California to expand the school's online education opportunities for students. 2007
October
WRITETOLEARN™ is honored with a 12th Annual Education Software Review (EDDIE) Award. The award program sponsor, ComputED Learning Center of San Diego, names WriteToLearn "Best High School Language Arts Web Site." 2007
November
THE PEARSON FOUNDATION and The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) announce their joint initiative, Education is a Civil Right, at NABSE’s 35th annual conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Education is a Civil Right will target K-12 African-American students and their families, and address the distinct educational and social challenges faced by this community. 2007
November
PEARSON is named to the prestigious “EContent 100” list by EContent magazine, as one of the companies that “matter most in the digital content industry.” 2007
November
PEARSON announces the creation of a higher education advisory council to provide strategic guidance for the company’s eLearning efforts in the U.S. and abroad. The Pearson Strategic Advisory Board, comprised of senior executives from a wide variety of higher education institutions both in the U.S. and globally, will provide guidance and feedback to the company as it continues to enhance its eLearning products and services. 2007
December
PEARSON announces that it will be providing the Camden County School System in Camden County, GA, a suite of data analysis, student information management, and assessment products including the PowerSchool Premier student information system (SIS), Pearson Inform data analysis tool, and Benchmark assessment system. The addition of this complete and integrated solution will revolutionize the way in which Camden County Schools capture, manage, analyze, leverage, and communicate student performance data. 2008
January
PEARSON announces enVisionMATH, a research-based program designed to meet elementary students on their own turf by combining visual animation and next-generation technologies while providing a comprehensive foundation in math skills that will prepare them for success in the 21st century economy. Four years in the making, enVisionMATH centers on conceptual understanding to help students develop their reasoning ability for problem-solving – the critical foundation for higher level math they will need to succeed in college and in their careers. 2008
February
PEARSON SCHOOL and the Family Education Network announce the launch of www.MathSupportforParents.com to help parents understand the inquiry-based approach to developing the mathematical thinking skills which are at the core of the research-based National Science Foundation Grant Math programs. The site supports Pearson’s Investigations in Number, Data and Space (kindergarten through grade five) and Connected Math (middle school) programs. 2008
February
PEARSON announces that PowerTeacher was selected as one of District Administration's "Readers Choice Top 100 K12 Products" of 2007. PowerTeacher represents the next level in classroom technology, providing features and functionality to seamlessly manage grades, students and classrooms. | 
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