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 ...

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 ...

There’s more bad news for Pearson, the world’s largest education company and testing behemoth. The state of New York just announced that it was dropping Pearson as its testing vendor and instead was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...