Pearson Education
Education publishing and assessment company
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| 2022 | Pearson acquired ClutchPrep, a Miami-based edtech startup, and renamed its service to Channels. |
| 2022 | Pearson announced plans to sell digital textbooks as NFTs to profit from secondhand sales. |
| 2019 | Pearson sold its remaining 25% stake in Penguin Random House to Bertelsmann. |
| 2019 | Cogmed was transferred back to its original founders. |
| 2019 | Pearson sold its US K-12 courseware business to Nexus Capital Management, which rebranded it as Savvas Learning Company. |
| 2019 | Pearson Education began phasing out hard-copy textbooks in favor of digital textbooks, which are more cost-effective and easier to update. |
| 2016 | Pearson acquired StatCrunch, a statistical analysis tool created by Webster West in 1997, after being its primary distributor for several years. |
| January 2016 | Pearson rebranded to focus solely on education and adopted a new logo featuring an interrobang symbol. |
| 2015 | Pearson sold PowerSchool to Vista Equity Partners for $350 million cash. |
| 2015 | Pearson sold its Family Education Network and Poptropica to London-based investment group Sandbox Partners. |
| 2015 | Pearson sold its financial news publications Financial Times and The Economist. |
| 2014 | PowerSchool generated $97 million in revenue and $20 million in operating income for Pearson. |
| December 31 2014 | Pearson Education closed its U.S. headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. |
| 2013 | Pearson restructured, combining Pearson North America and Pearson International into one company organized around three global business lines: School, Higher Education, and Professional. |
| 2011 | Pearson Education was restyled and rebranded to simply 'Pearson'. |
| 2010 | Pearson purchased Cogmed, a brain fitness and working memory training program originally founded by Swedish researcher Torkel Klingberg in 1999. |
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