he Pearson Foundation is underwriting a tour of a rare, original copy of the Declaration of Independence, which will visit several winning schools which took part in last November’s National Student/Parent Mock Election. The first visit took place in June at the New Jersey State Museum, where Gov. Jon Corzine praised the state’s students for the impressive scope of their voter education and mock election campaigns. The Mock Election was set up to encourage students to learn about the election process and to feel empowered to vote when they are older. This video “documents” the NJ festivities…

n amazing transformation is taking place at Colorado’s Glenwood Springs Elementary School: after only one year of using Longman Cornerstone, an English Language learning program from Pearson, young students who were unable to speak a word of English are now reading, writing and speaking the language nearly fluently. “I’m going to get teary-eyed,” says Jeanine King, the students’ teacher, “because of the success these kids have made. I’m so proud of them.” And the success will continue: Cornerstone is now in every K-5 ELL classroom across the entire district.  Quite a story…

-12 students’ opinions and concerns are often lost in the daily academic shuffle. The MyVoice Aspiration Survey, conducted by the Educational Assessment group of Pearson and the Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, helps change that by offering unique insight into students’ viewpoints. The survey explores what motivates and inspires students to achieve and how well students think America’s school system meets their educational needs. To date, nearly 500,000 student voices have been heard through the survey. Look and listen…

IMSweb, Pearson’s web-based assessment/data-management system, enables teachers and administrators to monitor student progress, address deficiencies, and recheck results quickly and often. The result? Student success. Just ask Chicago’s Elk Grove Township School District, which has measured student progress in reading and math with AIMSweb for the past six years, achieving proven results. Class is in session…

earson’s customized reading program for California is setting students on the road to reading success. Reading Street California is aligned to new state standards, and offers teachers all they need to ensure that every child builds a sound foundation in reading skills. In California, 1.6 million students are English learners and findings from an independent research study report that elementary school students learning with the Reading Street English Learning materials made significant gains in reading skills and in English language development. Watch, and learn more…

lorida’s teachers can meet today’s elementary school students in their digital world with the new enVisionMATH Florida, developed specifically for the state and customized to meet the forthcoming Next Generation Sunshine State Standards. Authored by the country’s most respected experts in mathematics education, enVisionMATH Florida helps student actually “see” their math, pairing animated visual instruction with problem-based interactive learning to ensure that every child in Florida builds a rock solid foundation in math skills. See how it all adds up…

istory is shaped by a series of stories, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto, and for the new edition of Prentice Hall’s The World: A History, the renowned scholar and author acts as a personal tour guide to the places and people of the past. In ten short videos created to accompany the text’s second edition, in locations reflecting specific historical periods, Fernández-Armesto conjures up vivid images of bygone eras, and the impact each had on the present day. See for yourself…

earson recently conducted a survey to determine how to help college students achieve their education goals, and to learn what they value most right now. The results are in, and ranking at the top is the value they place on having all their course material in one book. Pearson’s custom learning solutions offer faculty and college students a great education value: faculty has more control over their teaching materials, and students have everything their professor will teach in one place. Check out this custom-made video…