Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. It was created in 1998 when Pearson purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison–Wesley Longman.

Pearson Education is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey with major divisions headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Boston, MA, Columbus, Ohio, Glenview, IL, Indianapolis, IN and Chandler, AZ.^[1] It is part of Pearson PLC, which is headquartered in London, England, with offices in Harlow and Oxford.

Imprints[link]

Pearson Education has a number of publishing imprints:

Partnerships[link]

Pearson Education has partnered with five other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart, a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform.^[3] In 2010, Pearson agreed to a 5 year, $32 million, contract with the New York State Department of Education to design tests for students in grades 4-8.

Technology products[link]

• Course Compass extensions to Blackboard Inc.'s
• CourseConnect, a library of customisable online courses
• Livelessons, video training from technology experts
• MyMathLab and MyStatsLab, comprehensive online, interactive teaching/learning systems^[4]
• Pearson LearningStudio, SaaS-based Learning Management System
• Market Leader Live, Online Business English training
• Mastering Platform, college level homework assessment system
• OpenClass, free learning environment delivered from the cloud, integrated with Google Apps for Education™

Competitors[link]

Pearson Education operates globally and has a range of competitors, both worldwide and in each country in which it operates. In the United States, its main K-12 competitors include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a subsidiary of EMPG; and McGraw Hill Education, a division of the McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. International competitors include Macmillan Education, a division of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and the Houghton affiliate EMPGI.

See also[link]

• List of largest UK book publishers

References[link]

External links[link]

• Pearson Education US
• Pearson Education India
• Pearson School Systems
• Heinemann UK
• Peachpit Press
• Wharton School Publishing
• CourseSmart
• Gazelle Javan
• Pearson Education awards places on Student Advisory Board

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Sir Michael Barber is currently the Chief Education Advisor to Pearson, the world's largest learning company. In the past, Sir Michael served as a partner and head of the global education practice at McKinsey, advisor to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and a global expert on education reform and implementation of large-scale system change. He has worked for over 20 years in education and government reform and improvement.^[1]

Barber previously served as Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for Education on School Standards during the first term of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.^[1] During Blair’s second term, from 2001 to 2005, Barber served as the Chief Adviser on Delivery, reporting directly to Prime Minister Blair.^[1] As head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (PMDU), he was responsible for working with government agencies to ensure successful implementation of the Prime Minister’s priority programs, including those in health, education, transport, policing, the criminal justice system, and asylum/immigration.^[2] He wrote a book about his experience in the PMDU, titled Instruction to Deliver: Fighting to Reform Britain’s Public Services (Metheun 2008), which was described by the Financial Times as “one of the best books about British Government for many years,” and has been read by political leaders around the world.^[2]

Following his time leading the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, Barber served as partner and head of McKinsey’s Global Education Practice. While at McKinsey, Sir Michael Barber co-authored two major education reports: How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better (2010) and How the world’s best-performing schools come out on top (2007).^[1] He also served as co-chair of the Pakistan Education Taskforce^[2] and continues to work on education system reform in Pakistan as DFID’s Special Representative on Education for Pakistan. Through his work in Pakistan Sir Michael is serving as an Advisor to Honorable Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, on his ambitious public education reform program called Punjab Schools Reform Roadmap with the goal of enrolling ~7.5M of out school children and increasing the quality of education significantly.

Sir Michael has consulted to governments in over 40 countries on issues of public policy and delivery. Sir Michael Barber published Deliverology 101 in 2011 to serve as a comprehensive guide to Education system reform and delivery. Governments and large public organisations (from the Louisiana school system to the Malaysian government) have systematically adopted the 'deliverology' approach and realized quick impact and significantly improve outcomes to their reform programs. Additionally, major international organizations including the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, DFID, and the IMF have sought the advice and guidance of Sir Michael.^[2]

Sir Michael is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter.^[3]

In 2008, Sir Michael Barber received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of the University from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of his leading contribution to reforms aimed at the modernisation of public management and services over the last 20 years, both nationally and internationally, as an area of expertise explicitly identified in the University's strategic plan.

In the summer of 2010, Sir Michael Barber teamed with leaders from the Education Trust and Achieve to found the U.S. Education Delivery Institute. This Institute works with leaders of K-12 and higher education systems around the United States to adapt the delivery concept pioneered by Barber in the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit to drive American education reform efforts.^[4]

In September 2011, Sir Michael Barber became Chief Education Advisor at Pearson. In this role, he will lead the company’s worldwide research and partnership on education policy, and learning methods, advise on and support the innovation and development of new products and services, and lead Pearson’s strategy for education in the poorest sectors of the world, particularly in fast-growing developing economies.^[1]

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Sir Michael Barber to join Pearson as Chief Education Advisor". http://www.pearson.com/media-1/announcements/?i=1443. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} "U.S. Education Delivery Institute - Board Members". http://www.deliveryinstitute.org/board-members. 
3. ^ "World Innovation Summit for Education - Biography". http://www.wise-qatar.org/node/10778. 
4. ^ "U.S. Education Delivery Institute - Delivery Approach". http://www.deliveryinstitute.org/delivery-approach.