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Pearson Education is the world's leading educational
and professional publisher. The imprints that make up Pearson Education describe
a rich educational and literary heritage. They stretch back to 1725 when Thomas
Longman published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin. The Scott Foresman
imprint, dating back to 1889, taught generations of Americans to read with the
first Dick, Jane, and Spot stories.
Law professor, Dr. Charles Gerstenberg,
and his student, Richard Ettinger, founded Prentice Hall in 1913. Taking their
mothers' maiden names¡XPrentice and Hall¡Xto name their new company, Gerstenberg
and Ettinger would create the premier U.S. publisher of academic, business, and
professional books.
Addison-Wesley's reputation as a science and math
publisher of note was firmly established with the debut of the best-selling, Mechanics,
in 1942.
Today, Pearson Education has the most widely trusted and respected
programs in educational and professional publishing. The following chronology
documents the history and evolution of Pearson Education.
|
 | 1724 |
| | LONGMAN is founded in London
by Thomas Longman I. A Longman family member remains at the helm from 1724 until
Mark Longman's death in 1972. | | | |
| 1725 |
| | LONGMAN publishes William
Wollaston's The Religion of Nature Delineated, the first book ever typeset by
Benjamin Franklin. | | | |
| 1727 |
| | LONGMAN publishes Ephraim
Chambers' Cyclopaedia: A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. This has long
been considered the parent of all encyclopedias, including Britannica. |
| | | | 1755 |
| | LONGMAN publishes Dr. Samuel
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, the first comprehensive English-language
dictionary. | | | |
| 1834 |
| | LONGMAN publishes the first
edition of The Story of the Three Bears. In this version Goldilocks was a little
old woman. | | | |
| 1844 |
| | LONGMAN publishes William
Henry Fox Talbot, The Pencil of Nature. This pioneer of photography wrote about
his methods of producing photographs. This text, long considered to be the single
most important book of photographs, was the first commercially published book
ever illustrated without the aid of an artist. | | | |
| 1852 |
| | LONGMAN publishes the first
edition of Roget's Thesaurus (publishing rights transferred to Penguin in 1994). |
| | |
| 1863 |
| | LONGMAN acquires the J.W.
Parker publishing business and takes over publication of the landmark book, Gray's
Anatomy, originally published in 1858. | | | |
| 1883 |
| | GINN & CO. first publishes
Classics for Children, Robinson Crusoe, Plutarch's Lives and other standard classics
studied by each child before graduation from grammar school. Valued as models
of literary art, their immediate success establishes them as forerunners of the
supplementary reading idea. | | | |
| Late
1880s | | | SILVER &
CO.'s Summer Music Workshops are first introduced. The workshops for music teachers
sponsored by Silver Burdett Company began in 1885 and have continued every summer
without interruption. | | | |
| 1886 |
| | SILVER & CO. enters the
general textbook field with its series Normal Course in Reading. |
| | |
| 1888 |
| | SILVER & CO.- M. Thatcher
Rogers sells his interests in the company to Frank W. Burdett. The firm becomes
known as Silver, Burdett & Co. | | | |
| 1889 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.-
Erastus H. Scott and A.J. Albert form Albert and Scott and publish Bellum Helvecticum,
a high school Latin text. | | | |
| 1897 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
buys S.C. Griggs and Company and acquires Robert's Rules of Order. |
| | |
| 1909 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
enters the elementary market with the Elson Grammar School Readers. |
| | |
| 1911 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
publishes the first math text for primary grades, First Journeys in Numberland.
Scott Foresman is the first publisher to use four-color printing, which revolutionized
textbooks. | | | |
| 1913 |
| | PRENTICE HALL is formed by
NYU Professor Charles W. Gerstenberg and student Richard P. Ettinger, naming the
company in honor of their mothers' maiden names. | | | |
| 1915 |
| | PRENTICE HALL publishes the
first book on taxation in loose-leaf format to respond to their colleagues' needs
for completely up-to-date information on rapidly changing laws. |
| | |
| 1924 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER is created
when two young entrepreneurs, Richard Simon and Max Schuster, pool their savings
to publish a crossword puzzle book that becomes an instant best-seller and creates
a nationwide crossword puzzle craze. Simon & Schuster's "sower"
logo becomes a publishing benchmark. | | | |
| 1930 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
publishes the first Dick and Jane stories in the Elson-Gray Basic Readers. |
| | |
| 1935 |
| | LONGMAN publishes the first
English Language Teaching (ELT) dictionary. | | | |
| 1942 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY publishes
its first book, Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics. | | | |
| 1950 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY publishes
its first computer programming book, Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer,
by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. | | | |
| 1950 |
| | PRENTICE HALL forms its first
Educational Book Division. | | | |
| 1956 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY School Division
is created and, within two years, the "Science Education Series" (later
Science and Mathematics) with teacher training materials is published for the
secondary, college preparatory market. | | | |
| 1956 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY School Division
is created and, within two years, the "Science Education Series" (later
Science and Mathematics) with teacher training materials is published for the
secondary, college preparatory market. | | | |
| 1962 |
| | HARPER & BROTHERS merges
with Row, Peterson & Co. to become Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. |
| | |
| 1962 |
| | PRENTICE HALL acquires the
New York Institute of Finance. | | | |
| 1962 |
| | SILVER, BURDETT & CO.
is acquired by Time, Inc. Silver, Burdett distributes Time-Life books to schools
and libraries. | | | |
| 1965 |
| | SILVER, BURDETT & CO.-Time,
Inc., Silver Burdett, and General Electric put up $18 million to jointly form
General Learning Corporation. Silver Burdett is the first division in this new
alliance. | | | |
| 1968 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY establishes
Cummings Publishing in Menlo Park, CA. | | | |
| 1968 |
| | LONGMAN becomes part of Pearson
plc, the London-based international media company. | | | |
| 1968 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
publishes the first children's thesaurus, In Other Words: A Beginning Thesaurus. |
| | |
| 1969 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY-IBM and Addison-Wesley
begin the "IBM Systems Programming Series," establishing Addison-Wesley
as a dominant publisher in the computer programming field. | | | |
| 1970 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY acquires the
premier science publisher, W.A. Benjamin Company, and publishes the flagship text,
James D. Watson's Molecular Biology of the Gene. | | | |
| 1974 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
purchases General Learning Corporation from Time, Inc. and General Electric. |
| | |
| 1974 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY General Books
Division is created. | | | |
| 1977 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY and Benjamin
Cummings merge. | | | |
| 1978 |
| | PRENTICE HALL adds 80,000
square feet to its Salt Lake City, UT-based book center, to support their expanding
West Coast market. | | | |
| 1980 |
| | PRENTICE HALL's Trade Division
and Spectrum Book Division merge into the new General Publishing Division. |
| | |
| 1981 |
| | PRENTICE HALL and the American
Marketing Association begin a joint venture to publish books for the marketing
professional. | | | |
| 1982 |
| | PRENTICE HALL forms Editora
Prentice-Hall de Brasil, Ltd. | | | |
| 1983 |
| | PRENTICE HALL College Division
acquires English as a Second (and Foreign) Language (ESL) lines. |
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| 1984 |
| | PRENTICE HALL's Information
Services Division launches its first electronic information system, PHINet. |
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| 1984 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER expands
from consumer publishing into the growing educational publishing market with the
acquisition of Prentice Hall, a global leader in higher education with significant
operations in professional and reference publishing, and Esquire, Inc., an elementary
and high school educational publisher. | | | |
| 1985 |
| | LONGMAN-Uganda creates primary
courses for an entire national system of education. | | | |
| 1985-1986 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Ginn & Company, a leading elementary and high school publisher, and Silver
Burdett Company, an elementary school publisher. The companies are now known as
Silver Burdett Ginn, a preeminent publisher of educational materials from pre-school
through grade twelve. | | | |
| 1986-1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER expands
its publishing operations with the acquisition of eleven educational operations
(including Lange Medical Publications, Regents Publishing, CCD On Line, and American
Teaching Aids) as well as nine professional information publishers including Law
& Business, Infosearch, Statewide Information Systems, Search West, Charles
E. Simon, Master Data Center, and various Pergamon Institute of English and Yourdon
Press titles. | | | |
| 1985 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
is acquired by Time, Inc. | | | |
| 1987 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
forty-one vocational titles in business education, fire science, advanced electronics,
construction, and mechanical technology from John Wiley & Sons. The titles
become part of the Prentice Hall operations of S&S's Higher Education Group. |
| | |
| 1987 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER's College
business textbook list is acquired from W.C. Brown. The transaction includes the
transfer to Brown of Allyn & Bacon physical education, math, computer, and
political science titles. | | | |
| 1988 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY is purchased
by Pearson plc, the global media company. | | | |
| 1988 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Quercus Corp., a junior and senior high school special education publisher, and
makes it part of Simon & Schuster's School Group. | | | |
| 1988 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
National Publishers, a producer of vocational education books on travel and tourism
and the medical service professions, making it part of Simon & Schuster's
Higher Education Group. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | HARPER & ROW acquires
Scott, Foresman (now including the previously merged Little, Brown & Company).
William Collins plc and Harper & Row merge. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY purchases
Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Macdonald Children's Books, Macdonald Educational, Beehive, and Purnell imprints,
including approximately 1,500 reference, classroom, and fictional titles for children
and young adults published in the U.K., from U.K.-based Maxwell Communication
Corporation plc. These titles become part of Simon & Schuster's International
Group. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
"Vacation Church School Program," a religious textbook program, from
Harper & Row. These titles are now published by Silver Burdett & Ginn,
as part of Simon & Schuster's School Group. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Fearon Education and Fearon Teacher Aids from David S. Lake Publishers. Fearon
Education becomes part of Simon & Schuster's School Group; Fearon Teacher
Aids becomes part of S&S's Supplementary Education Group. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
a list of approximately one hundred business and economic titles from Philip Allan
of Oxford, England. They will continue to be published under the Philip Allan
imprint. The list becomes part of Simon & Schuster International's Academic
Division. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
a list of twenty four accounting and auditing titles aimed at the accounting market
from Shepards/McGraw-Hill, Inc. They will be published by Prentice Hall Business
and Professional Publishing unit. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
psychology-related titles from the Psychology Corporation. The titles become part
of S&S's Higher Education Group. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
occupational and remedial mathematics book programs from John Wiley & Sons,
Inc. They become part of Prentice Hall College Book Division. | | | |
| 1989 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Ellis Horwood, a British publisher of academic, scientific, and technical titles.
Ellis Horwood is a major U.K. publisher of computer science, mathematics, engineering,
and science titles. It becomes part of Simon & Schuster's International Group. |
| | |
| 1990 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY formalizes
an affiliation with Editions du Renouveau Pˆodagogique, Inc. (ERPI), a prominent
Quebec publisher. | | | |
| 1990 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY acquires Cuisenaire
Company of America, noted for math manipulatives. | | | |
| 1990 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Janus Book Publishers, Inc., publisher of both the Janus Books and the Alemany
Press imprints. The Janus Books imprint will be combined with Fearon Education
and Quercus Corporation to form Simon & Schuster Special Needs Publishers,
a new division within its Supplementary Education Group. The Alemany Press imprint
will become part of Prentice Hall Regents, a unit of Simon & Schuster's Higher
Education Group. | | | |
| 1990 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
the Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC), a leading multimedia educational publisher. |
| | |
| 1991 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Macmillan Computer Publishing, the world's largest computer book publisher, from
Macmillan, Inc. | | | |
| 1991 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) titles from Morton Publishing Company. These
titles will be published by the Prentice Hall vocational education unit. |
| | |
| 1994 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY acquires Peachpit
Press, a computer trade publisher. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | LONGMAN publishes the Longman
Interactive English Dictionary, the first English Language Teaching (ELT) dictionary
on CD-ROM. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | LONGMAN launches the "Look
Ahead" multimedia series (with the BBC and British Council) to teach the
world English. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
U.S. publisher Macmillan Publishing, bolstering the company's strengths in consumer,
college, and reference publishing, while tripling the size of its juvenile publishing
business. The company also acquires one thousand English Language Training (ELT)
titles from separately owned Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan Publishing USA becomes the
umbrella name for the company's reference operations. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
the German computer book publishing operations of Markt&Technik, providing
entree to the world's second largest computer market and establishing a stepping-stone
for European expansion. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER announces
that Viacom, Inc. has completed its acquisition of its parent organization, Paramount
Communications, Inc. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION
introduces "SuccessMaker" to schools throughout the U.K. The interactive
courseware is now used by nearly two million students in six countries worldwide. |
| | |
| 1994 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER's Education
Group moves employees to new state-of-the-art facilities in Upper Saddle River,
NJ. | | | |
| 1994 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER launches
the new digital imprint, Macmillan Digital USA, signaling an ongoing major commitment
to electronic publishing leadership. This imprint will produce reference and computer
book content in electronic formats. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | ADDISON-WESLEY merges with
Longman Publishing to create Addison Wesley Longman. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN establishes
a publishing partnership with JavaSoft, the Sun Microsystems division that developed
the Java programming language. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN & CO.
establishes Celebration Press, a new supplementary imprint. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER's Higher
Education site (http://www.prenhall.com/) is the first Internet site from a college
publisher. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION
(CCC) and the Smithsonian Institution agree to develop consumer CD-ROMs. |
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| 1995 |
| | COMPUTER CURRICULUM CORPORATION
(CCC) launches "Choosing Success," a bold in-school multimedia program
to help teens make the right choices. WIRED magazine calls it "the most inspired
piece of educational software ever created. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Educational Management Group (EMG), which will deliver customized multimedia instructional
materials and live interactive television to nearly two million students through
a global telecommunications network. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING
USA merges with Alpha Books to form Que, the world's largest computer book imprint. |
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| 1995 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Ziff-Davis Press, the book publishing arm of Ziff-Davis Publishing, which publishes
a list of seventy five books covering technology, science, and health topics.
S&S also enters into a strategic alliance with Ziff-Davis to develop new computer
books bearing Ziff-Davis magazine brand names such as PC Magazine, PC Computing,
MacUser and MacWEEK. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING
USA releases the first of one hundred and sixty one titles related to Microsoft's
Windows 95. MCP will ship more than one million reference and tutorial books linked
to the new operating system. | | | |
| 1995 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER announces
plans to open two South American offices located in Colombia and Brazil. |
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| 1995 |
| | MACMILLAN PUBLISHING USA'S
BradyGAMES launches "Brady's Game Basement," an Internet site. |
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| 1995 |
| | MACMILLAN DIGITAL USA (MDU)
releases its first four CD-ROM titles. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | ADDISON WESLEY LONGMAN acquires
HarperCollins Educational Publishers, as part of AWL's Higher Education Publishing
Group.< | | | |
| 1996 |
| | SCOTT FORESMAN-ADDISON WESLEY
School Publishing Group is formed. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | MACMILLAN COMPUTER PUBLISHING
USA (MCP) acquires The Waite Group, Inc., adding a backlist of sixty cutting-edge
titles on programming languages and emerging technologies, and continuing MCP's
West Coast expansion. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER's Ten
Minute Guide to Windows 95 is the publisher's first book to be locally published
in China. Through six local partnerships, S&S publishes more than one hundred
computer book titles in China in 1996. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER acquires
Mergent Technologies Group, providing software for the growing workplace skills
and adult literacy market in 1,600 learning center installations in the U.S. Mergent
will operate as a division of Computer Curriculum Corporation, to be renamed Invest
Learning. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | MACMILLAN PUBLISHING USA
and Cisco Systems, which supplies solutions for corporate intranets and the Internet,
create Cisco Press. This imprint will publish books for Internet-working and networking
professionals. | | | |
| 1996 |
| | NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF FINANCE
(NYIF) and AIC Conferences (AIC) form a joint venture to develop a worldwide financial
training business, headquartered in Singapore. NYIF's financial training for international
commercial banking, securities, and business professionals will initially span
twelve countries. | | | |
| 1997 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER forms
the K-12 Publishing Division, comprised of Silver Burdett Ginn (SBG), Prentice
Hall School, and Globe Fearon. | | | |
| 1997 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER launches
"eDscape," the most comprehensive on-line educational service available
for K-12 students and teachers. "eDscape" combines the curriculum and
teacher training resources of Computer Curriculum Corporation, Educational Management
Group, Prentice Hall, Silver Burdett Ginn, Globe Fearon, and Allyn & Bacon. |
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| 1997 |
| | PRENTICE HALL BUSINESS PUBLISHING
announces that two of their textbook authors were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Science: Robert Merton of the Harvard Business School (co-author of
Finance), and Myron S. Scholes of the Stanford Business School (co-author of Taxes
and Business). | | | |
| 1998 |
| | SIMON & SCHUSTER's parent
company, Viacom, announces plans to sell all of the Simon & Schuster educational
operations, including Prentice Hall, Allyn & Bacon, and Macmillan Publishing
USA. | | | |
| 1998 |
| | PEARSON plc makes the successful
bid for purchase of the S&S educational businesses, and creates Pearson Education. |
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| 1998 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION is officially
launched throughout the world. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION introduces
Open Book Publishing, the first of its kind quality-assurance initiative, with
the goal of one hundred percent factual accuracy in its textbooks. |
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| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc, as part of the
U.S. Department of Justice consent decree from the Simon & Schuster acquisition,
sells titles in biology/anatomy, physiology, engineering, computer science, mathematics,
economics/finance, social science, and teacher education. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc sells Jossey-Bass,
publisher of books, periodicals, and on-line products on key topics of business
management, health care, psychology, and other professional topics. |
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| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc sells medical
publisher, Appleton & Lange. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc sells Master
Data Center. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION partners
with WebCT, a leading on-line course management system, to supply content from
Pearson Education college textbooks to WebCT's newly launched e-Learning Hub.
The e-Learning Hub will bring critical course content, an active community, and
a unique educational commerce to more than 1,000 colleges and universities and
more than 4.3 million students worldwide. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc sells Macmillan
Library Reference USA and Macmillan General Reference USA. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION announces
plans to establish a consolidated office for the Higher Education and Professional
Group. The new office space will be located in the Back Bay section of downtown
Boston, MA. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON plc announces the
Canadian government's approval of their application to acquire control of Prentice
Hall Canada, Inc. and to merge it with its Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. business
in Canada. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | MACMILLAN USA, the world's
largest computer book publisher, announces the launch of its information technology
portal, InformIT, a complete on-line community delivering information, technology,
reference, training, news, and opinion to IT professionals, students, and corporate
users around the world. | | | |
| 1999 |
| | PEARSON TECHNOLOGY GROUP
is created, aligning Pearson PTR and Macmillan USA under one entity, creating
the world's largest provider of technology content. PTG will house such premier
imprints as Macmillan Software, Que, Sams, BradyGAMES, Macmillan Reference, Hayden,
Prentice Hall PTR, Peachpit Press, Addison-Wesley Professional, New Riders, Cisco,
and Adobe Press. | | | |
| 2000 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION announces
the creation of the K-12 Education Technology Group. The K-12 Education Technology
Group, which includes Computer Curriculum Corporation and the K-12 e-Ventures
group, will place a greater focus on the use of technology in the delivery of
elementary and secondary instruction. | | | |
| 2000 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION announces
plans to launch an international business book publishing operation that will
bring together the resources of its two subsidiaries, Prentice Hall and the Financial
Times, along with a strategic alliance with Reuters (the international news-wire
service). This new venture, Financial Times-Prentice Hall, will include four new
publishing units: FT-PH Books, Reuters Books, ft.com Books, and Prentice Hall
Professional and Technical Reference Business Publishing. | | | |
| 2000 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION and LessonLab,
a pioneer in large-scale research and development of rich-media technologies for
teaching and professional development, announce a partnership agreement to deliver
LessonLab’s online platform to Pearson Education’s K-12 customers. |
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| 2000 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION acquires
NCS, leader in the education, testing, assessment and complex data management
markets. | | | |
| 2001 |
| | PEARSON PRENTICE HALL launches
iText¡Xinteractive textbooks¡Xon its SuccessNet.com online platform. |
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| 2001 |
| | PEARSON BROADBAND introduces
KnowledgeBox? for U.S. K-6 market, offering ready-to-use and tested media lessons
for teachers and students. | | | |
| 2001 |
| | NCS PEARSON acquires the
assets of Reid Psychological Systems, and will combine the acquired company with
its NCS London House?, a provider of recruitment and employee selection tools,
to form Reid London House?. | | | |
| 2002 |
| | NCS PEARSON launches Pearson
Professional Testing, a new organization dedicated to meeting the growing demand
for a high-quality testing solution in the professional licensure and certification
market and to expand these services worldwide. | | | |
| 2002 |
| | PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL marks
expansion into Career and Technology Education with Purchase of Interstate Publishers,
leaders in agriculture education. | | | |
| 2002 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION acquires
DDC Publishing, a provider of software training titles to the high school and
post-secondary markets. | | | |
| 2003 |
| | PEARSON EDUCATION announces
global branding initiative at four-year mark. The Pearson name is introduced across
all products and services. | | | |
| 2003 |
| | PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN and
NASA join forces to enhance science curriculum. | | | |
| 2003 |
| | PEARSON SCOTT FORESMAN enters
arts market with acquisition of Barrett Kendall Publishing's "Portfolios:
State of the Art Program," a comprehensive visual art curriculum for kindergarten
through middle school. | | | |
| 2003 |
| | NCS PEARSON's businesses
are rebranded as Pearson Education Technologies, Pearson Assessments & Testing,
Pearson NCS Data Management, and Pearson Government Solutions. |
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