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 ...

Last week, the annual Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments, or MCAs, were disrupted by computer glitches and intentional attacks on the exam provider’s system. Minnesota currently has a $38 million, ...

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 ...

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 ...

International testing contractor Pearson will compensate the Minnesota Department of Education with nearly $6 million in fee reductions and services following glitches that led to statewide testing ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...