Pearson is part of Pearson PLC , which previously owned the Financial Times It was created in July 1998 when Pearson PLC purchased the training division of Simon & Schuster from Viacom and merged it with its own schooling division, Addison-Wesley Longman , to kind Pearson Education. Across the country, Pearson bought the Los Angeles Unified School District a web-based curriculum that it described as revolutionary — but that had not but been accomplished, much much less tested across a large district, earlier than the LAUSD agreed to spend an estimated $135 million on it. Teachers dislike the Pearson classes and infrequently use them, an independent evaluation discovered.
Much as it assesses others, it will assess its personal efficiency, reporting the results in each business publicly by 2018 in what it calls efficacy.” Pearson has developed specific standards for the success of every enterprise or initiative with more than $1 …