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Pearson Education
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Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Pearson Education has a number of publishing imprints:
- Addison-Wesley
- Allyn & Bacon
- Benjamin Cummings
- Cisco Press
- Exam Cram
- Financial Times
- IBM Press
- Longman
- MySQL Press
- New Riders
- Novell Press
- Peachpit Press
- Pearson Scott Foresman
- Penguin Longman
- Prentice Hall
- QUE Publishing
- SAMS Publishing
- Wharton School Publishing, with Wharton School
- York Notes
Pearson Education also acquired, on May 21st, 2007, Harcourt Education Limited, and its associated imprints, including Rigby, Heinemann, Ginn and Payne-Galway.
- Course Compass extensions to Blackboard Inc.'s
- PowerSchool, a web-based Student information system for K-12 schools. Founded in 1997, PowerSchool allows parents and students to see real-time attendance, homework, teacher-comments and grades. It and a company of 160 employees [1] was acquired in March 2001 by Apple Computer, who then sold it to Pearson Education in 2006. [2]