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Blackboard and Pearson Announce International Content Integration Partnership

Market-leading LMS and World's Leading Learning Companies Bring…

Pearson acquires EmbanetCompass

<< Blackboard CEO Resigns Pearson is announcing…

Pearson and Google Jump Into Learning Management With a New, Free System

One of the world’s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new—and free—learning-management system with the hopes of upending services that affect just about every instructor, student, and college in the country

Pearson Acquires Connections Education

September 15, 2011. Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is announcing today the acquisition of Connections Education from an investor group led by Apollo Management, L.P. Through its Connections Academy business, the company operates online or ‘virtual’ public schools in 21 states in the US—serving more than 40,000 students in the current school year. These virtual charter schools are accredited and funded by the relevant state and are free to parents and students who choose a virtual school in place of a traditional public institution or other schooling options.

Pearson bets on growth in US education

In November, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation made its first…