) October 14, 2008 -- Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson's North American education businesses, today issued the following statement recognizing the accomplishments of the Brownsville Independent School District in Texas, winner of the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education as most improved school district.

"All of us at Pearson extend our sincere congratulations to everyone at the Brownsville Independent School District for the distinct honor as recipient of the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education. We commend the administrators and teachers of Brownsville for their significant contributions to making a difference in the progress of their students."

) August 5, 2009 -- Pearson eCollege today announced several new education partnerships with public, private and for-profit institutions that will deliver advanced teaching and learning experiences using Pearson eCollege's integrated education technology environment.

) January 28, 2009 -- Across the nation, many students struggle to learn their course materials with the same proficiency as their peers. Pearson, the global leader in education and education technology, hopes to lift this barrier with the release of Pearson HTMLbooks.

) January 28, 2009 -- Across the nation, many students struggle to learn their course materials with the same proficiency as their peers. Pearson, the global leader in education and education technology, hopes to lift this barrier with the release of Pearson HTMLbooks.

) August 31, 2009 -- The education and technology company Pearson today announced that Leah Jewell has been named president of the Health Science and Careers division of its Professional & Career business.

) July 13, 2009 -- Pearson, the world leader in educational content, technology and assessment, announced today that it is partnering with Revolution Learning to accelerate its aim to identify, develop, and scale the next generation of learning technologies, school management and organization innovations. Pearson has invested in a $10 million innovation venture fund managed by Revolution Learning.

) September 22, 2009 -- Reading teachers around the country can now transform their iPod touch® into a powerful tool for diagnosing, assessing and improving student reading skills. Pearson, the education and technology company, today announced that its award-winning DRA2 Handheld - Tango Software Edition is available for Apple's popular handheld device.

) January 22, 2009 -- Technology has provided new solutions that have fundamentally changed the face of education, providing many educators and administrators with improved ease of use and access to information. While these advances have improved teaching and learning, disparate technology systems can be frustrating for teachers and students.

) June 10, 2009 -- Pearson, the global leader in education and education technology, announced today that Milton-Union School District in West Milton, Ohio, has selected PowerSchool Premier as its student data management solution. The system will be implemented district-wide by fall 2009, supporting approximately 100 teachers and 1650 students.

Milton-Union joins several private schools and other larger public school districts successfully using PowerSchool Premier in Ohio, including the Upper Arlington and Cincinnati School Districts.

) June 29, 2009 -- Pearson today announced that the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools has selected Pearson's PowerSchool® Premier as its new web-based student information system (SIS).

) October 28, 2009 -- At the Assistive Technology Industry Association's (ATIA) conference in Chicago, the education services and technology company Pearson today announced new Pearson HTMLbooks™, digital versions of the company's course materials designed for students with learning, print, speech and language disabilities; auditory learners; children with autism; struggling readers; and homeschoolers.

) March 11, 2009 -- Perspective™ from Pearson, the powerful online remediation and enrichment tool that ties assessment to instruction, was named a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 24th Annual CODiE Awards. The online tool was recognized in the Best Student Assessment Solution category.

Established in 1986, the CODiE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital information and education technology industries. Through a unique combination of journalist and expert peer review, the CODiE Awards finalists were chosen from more than 850 nominations submitted by 600 companies.

) October 19, 2009 -- Pearson, a global leader in education, technology and services, today announced the acquisition of A+RISE (Research-based Instructional Strategies for Teachers) to expand its breadth of professional development offerings for teachers. A+RISE delivers practical and hands-on teaching strategies, training and consulting services for all teachers who have English language learners (ELLs) in their classrooms.

) February 4, 2009 -- Meeting the academic needs of every student is no small task for Onamia Public Schools, a rural district in central Minnesota. With a population of 750 students residing across a large geographic area, a free/reduced lunch rate of nearly 70 percent and no public library within the district boundaries, providing every student with targeted resources seemed nearly impossible until the district discovered Perspective ™, an online remediation and enrichment tool from Pearson that ties assessment to instruction.

) September 30, 2008 -- More than 18 million students are attending colleges and universities across the U.S. and enrollment is expected to increase in the coming years, according to the federal government. With so many students working towards goals of professional success, it begs the question: What do today's students really want and need to succeed?

) July 29, 2009 -- Answering the call for technology-driven solutions that improve teaching quality and effectiveness, education service and solution company Pearson today announced the introduction of Understand Scoring, a new professional development service of Perspective™, the company's innovative online remediation and enrichment tool.

) June 29, 2009 -- Pearson, the education and technology company, today announced that it is collaborating with LearningStation, an e-learning provider, and Promethean, an instructional technology company, to launch a cutting-edge solution for district and classroom assessment that will enable administrators and teachers to make increasingly powerful connections between assessment and learning. Featured this week at the 2009 National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Pearson's assessment for learning solution will be available to schools for the 2009-2010 school year.

) August 13, 2009 -- Pearson Education and Modality, Inc. today announced the AlgebraPrep: Factoring application is available on the App Store. This iPhone™ and iPod touch® app, comprised of practice tests and video tutorials by the award-winning instructor and bestselling author Elayn Martin-Gay, is designed to provide supplemental help for students in or out of class.

The new AlgebraPrep series for iPhone and iPod touch helps students build skills and confidence.

) June 2, 2009 -- The Road and Transport Authority of Dubai has announced a new partnership with computerbased testing leader Pearson VUE to deliver what it believes will be the world's most high-tech Driver Testing System.

From May 2009, Pearson VUE will handle all the test delivery aspects including:

) August 28, 2009 -- Global education, technology and assessment company Pearson today announced new enhancements to the Millon™ Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III) test, including new combined gender norms and an added validity scale. Used by psychologists in clinical, counseling, medical and forensic settings, the MCMI-III assesses individuals for emotional, behavioral or interpersonal difficulties.

) March 6, 2009 -- ClickSafety.com, Inc., the leader in online safety training, has announced the appointment of Tim Spurlock as vice president of business development.

Spurlock will be responsible for leveraging relationships with ClickSafety's strategic partners, as well as establishing new channels and business models for ClickSafety's market-leading safety and compliance training courseware.

"Tim has a broad understanding of what it takes to grow a business," said Blaine Tomimoto, ClickSafety president. "We will leverage his experience to introduce more companies to our customizable and cost-effective training solutions."

) October 8, 2008 --
Addison-Wesley, a division of Pearson
Education, is releasing the iPhone
Developer’s Cookbook, providing Apple
developers with information on how to build iPhone applications using
the recently-released SDK.

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) June 29, 2009 -- Sullivan University, a private university based in Kentucky offering on-ground certificate and degree programs as well as fully online degree programs through its global e-learning campus, has chosen Embanet, ULC to provide students and faculty 24x7x365 end user support for its online Angel® Learning Management System.

) May 7, 2009 -- GlobalScholar®, a leading innovator of complete end-to-end learning solutions for school districts, tutoring institutions, colleges and universities, announced an alliance today with uBoost®, the leading provider of student recognition and rewards programs. As a result of the alliance, students in institutions that use the GlobalScholar Learning Management Solution as their e-learning environment can access uBoost student recognition functionality from within the GlobalScholar Pinnacle and Private Label solutions.

GlobalScholar's integrated online tutoring solution will provide the following capabilities to school districts and SES tutoring companies:

) December 11, 2008 --
In 2007, Internet crime in the U.S. hit a record $240 million in losses,
up by $40 million from the previous year. Cyber
Crime Fighters: Tales from the Trenches, new from Que
Publishing, takes readers behind the headlines, spotlighting actual
cases and criminals committing crimes on social networks and YouTube,
cyberstalking, criminal cyber-bullying, online child predators, identity
theft, and cell phone felonies.

Wakoopa, the online social network for discovering software, games and web applications, released its inaugural "The State of Apps: Software, Games and Web Apps Trend Report" for Q1 2009 today in cooperation with Pearson, the global leader in education and education technology. The report reveals key statistics and highlights emerging trends in software, game and web application usage. The statistics in the report were generated during the first quarter of 2009 by more than 75K software enthusiasts and early technology adopters who are active, registered users of Wakoopa.com. (PRWeb Apr 28, 2009)

) June 30, 2009 -- Poptropica, the Web's fastest growing virtual world for kids, has entered Quantcast.com's list of top 300 Web sites, based on monthly visitors. Less than two years old, the safe online environment for fun and learning recently secured the 274th slot on the online audience measurement firm's list. Poptropica users have created more than 120 million online characters who explore and learn on the site's nine virtual islands.

Technology for Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction Honored in Best Educational Use of a Technology Device Category (PRWeb Mar 19, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/03/prweb2246814.htm

) June 9, 2009 -- Wimba® Inc., the education technology company that helps people teach people, announced today that it closed $6 million in a round of Series C venture capital financing led by ABS Ventures. This new funding will drive continued development of innovative collaborative technology and market expansion, leveraging the strength of the award-winning Wimba Collaboration Suite™ and its enthusiastic adoption amongst learning communities around the world.

) November 3, 2009 -- Jenzabar®, Inc., a leading provider of software, services and strategies for higher education, announced today that three higher education institutions have chosen Jenzabar’s Retention Management Solution (Jenzabar RMS). Dominican University, Edgewood College, and Flagler College plan to utilize Jenzabar RMS to identify at-risk students and increase retention rates.

) July 30, 2009 -- Drexel University Online, a leader in online degree programs, added a new program to its offerings, the Graduate Certificate in E-Learning Leadership from Drexel's Goodwin College of Professional Studies.

) June 30, 2009 -- Colleges and universities across the United States are starting to take a second look at the traditional model of higher education and many are re-evaluating the way classes and degree programs are being delivered. With more than 3.9 million students, nearly 20 percent of all U.S. higher education students, currently enrolled in at least one online course, according to the Sloan Consortium, it's hard for them not to.

) March 30, 2009 -- SmartDraw.com, maker of SmartDraw, the software that helps you work smarter by communicating visually, today announced that the new book, SmartDraw: A Hands-On Tutorial and Guide is available through Pearson Higher Education, a division of Pearson, the global leader in education publishing.

) March 5, 2009 -- Tennessee State University (TSU) has awarded The Integrated Solution Group, Inc. a contract to develop a statewide database and web based interactive training assessment system for The Tennessee Early Childhood Training Alliance (TECTA). The system will provide TECTA with a central database for student tracking and reporting, and a web based interactive learning and assessment environment where material is presented to foster understanding and use of the Tennessee Early Learning Development Standards (TN-ELDS) to training participants providing care and education to young children.

) March 19, 2009 -- The People History is celebrating three years online by providing free, printable A4 posters for important celebrations -- including images from 10, 15, 25, 50 and 80 years ago -- suitable for placing in picture frames.

The People History Logo

) April 7, 2009 -- Wimba Connect 2009 User Conference (PRWeb) April 7, 2009 - Wimba® Inc., the education technology company that helps people teach people, unveiled the Wimba Collaboration Suite™ 6.0 at its second annual users conference, "Wimba Connect 2009: Adventures in Collaboration!" Hundreds of attendees experienced the innovative new capabilities of Wimba Classroom™, Wimba Pronto™, and Wimba Voice™ - enhancements that defy the physical classroom and enrich the teaching and learning experience.

) May 6, 2009 -- Family Education Network's Jeff Kinney has gone from "Wimpy Kid" to one of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people of 2009. Kinney, design director for the family of educational and informative Web sites and author of the global bestseller "Diary of a Wimpy Kid ," joined world leaders and pop stars, actors and environmentalists on this annual list of the people who most affect our world.

) October 13, 2008 -- The Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), the leading provider of vendor-neutral certifications for the world's technology workforce, announced today the updated CompTIA Security+ certification exam is scheduled for worldwide availability on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.

The 2008 Edition of the CompTIA Security+ exam places greater emphasis on knowing how to address specific security issues, rather than simply being able to recognize these issues. The new exam covers six major objectives, or topics: Systems Security, Network Infrastructure, Access Control, Assessments and Audits, Cryptography, and Organizational Security.

) November 21, 2008 -- Tritone Music Education Systems, located in Vancouver, British Columbia is an innovator and developer of online music education services, applications and technology software. Tritone is a pioneer in e-learning music education solutions for public schools and distance education. They provide a managed learning environment using the Internet as a "music lab" thus allowing multiple classrooms and schools to be integrated into one system. This system can be managed and monitored from one or more locations.

) January 28, 2009 -- Embanet ULC, a leading online higher education services provider in North America, and Lethbridge College (Alberta) have announced a new partnership in which the Toronto-based firm will provide data hosting and support services for the institution's new online learning management system. The partnership will provide around-the-clock help desk services to the college's 7,000 students, many of whom are taking classes and pursuing their college degrees online.