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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Update: New information on number of students who will be retested, other details) For two days this week, tens of thousands of Virginia students taking year-end Standards of Learning exams have ...

Back in February I wrote about the strange phenomenon whereby Pearson Education, the education publishing company, has managed to take over standardized testing around the world, despite never really ...

Pearson VUE, the assessment services wing of Pearson, has acquired examination software development company Exam Design. The purchase includes ownership of Exam Design's ExamDeveloper, a Web-based ...