11 Facts About Pearson Education

Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly.

Pearson Education was rebranded to Pearson in 2011 and split into an International and a North American division.

Pearson Education International is headquartered in London, and maintains offices across Europe, Asia and South America.

Que Publishing, a publishing imprint of Pearson Education-based out of Seattle, partnered with AARP to develop and add to a series of technology books for seniors.

In 2006, Pearson Education acquired PowerSchool, a student information system, from Apple.

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In 2015, Pearson Education sold PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners for $350 million cash.

Pearson Education owns Cogmed, a brain fitness and working memory training program founded in 1999 by Swedish researcher Torkel Klingberg.

In 2016 Pearson Education acquired StatCrunch, a statistical analysis tool created by Webster West in 1997.

Pearson Education had already been the primary distributor of StatCrunch for several years.

Pearson Education sold its interest in Safari Books Online to O'Reilly in 2014.

In July 2019 Pearson Education announced it would begin the process of phasing out the publishing of printed textbooks, in a plan to move into a more digital first strategy.