Short answers, pulled from the story.
Pearson Education included a passage about a talking pineapple in the 8th Grade English Language Arts test in 2012, which contained over thirty distinct errors. The state of New York announced it would not count the questions in scoring after the error caused public outcry.
Pearson Education acquired the textbook publisher Longman in 1968. The company purchased Addison-Wesley in 1988 and merged it with Longman to create Addison-Wesley Longman.
Pearson Education announced in 2019 that it would begin phasing out the publishing of printed textbooks to move into a digital first strategy. The company sold its US K-12 courseware business to Nexus Capital Management in 2019 and rebranded it as Savvas Learning Company.
Pearson Education acquired PowerSchool in 2006 and StatCrunch in 2016. The company also developed Poptropica and acquired Cogmed in 2010 before transferring it back to the original founders in 2019.
The headquarters of parent company Pearson plc are in London, England. As of 2023, Pearson Education has testing and teaching centers in over 55 countries worldwide.