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 ...

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 ...

LONDON, July 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L), the world's lifelong learning company, today announces updates to its English language testing portfolio. These include enhancements to ...

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 ...

Continued execution against our strategic priorities; on track to deliver on 2025 market expectations 1 with clear drivers ...

Rising enrolment into virtual schools and AI exam tools boost Pearson - The business said it has growing evidence that ...

Virtual Learning remained the standout performer, with sales up 17% in the quarter and enrolments for the 2025/26 academic ...

Two of the biggest names in testing are locked in a dispute over one of the most coveted jewels in the K-12 market: the right to oversee a suite of assessments in California, a state with about ...

MINNEAPOLIS, March 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson VUE, the global leader in computer-based testing, and IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity ™, have partnered to develop and deploy ...

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.

A version of this story ran in the September 2014 issue. Rebellions sometimes begin slowly, and Walter Stroup had to wait almost seven hours to start his. The setting was a legislative hearing at the ...