Pearson is facing a class action lawsuit in the US after 13,000 of its school and university student accounts were accessed by hackers.

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The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of ...

An experiment with embedding "growth-mindset" messaging in software appeared to help students persist when they encountered difficulty—and raised ethical concerns.

Pearson, in search of profits and a clearer emphasis on education, announces it will leave the learning management system market.

Management have moved to reassure staff and writers that selling the 47% holding will not affect business, but authors and agents express unease

Pearson plans to launch its own print rental program for courseware and reduce e-book rental prices by up to 50% as it bids to accelerate its shift to digital.

From Bloomberg: The crisis engulfing Pearson Plc deepened after the education company cut its profit forecast and predicted years of gloom in the U.S. market, forcing it to slash its dividend and put its stake in the iconic Penguin Random House book business up for sale to raise cash.

When we hear the phrase “unbundling” in education, it usually refers to one of two things. Either it’s about unbundling the university into component parts like separating courses from certification or it’s about unbundling content from textbooks or courses into discrete learning objects. On the spectrum from “figment of the imagination” to “the one and […]

"drop in demand for higher education textbooks in its biggest market the United States"

UK falls for a Big E-Textbook Deal.

Excelsior College and publisher Cengage Learning on Tuesday said they would partner to create self-paced online degree programs to give students an alternative pathway to college credit. The partnership will first produce an associate program in criminal justice and an M.B.A., but other courses and programs are in the works. Excelsior will be the first college to accept the courses as progress toward degree completion, and will also develop credit-bearing exams. Cengage will offer the courses on the Difference Engine learning platform, which it gained last year when it acquired the ed-tech company Learning Objects. The program will launch in March 2017 and cost between $400 and $550, Cengage said.

A union details -- point by point -- the case it will make against Pearson's worldwide business strategy at a shareholders meeting April 29.

Pearson, the company behind Common Core and the US testing-industrial complex, plans to conquer the entire world with its new model for education.

Community colleges are getting creative with how they handle low enrollment and money problems. A two-year college in Ohio has gone farther than most by hiring education juggernaut Pearson to handle

Education publisher Pearson says it is to shed 10% of its worldwide workforce in an effort to cuts costs.

The federal Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened an informal inquiry into whether Los Angeles school officials complied with legal guidelines in the use of bond funds for the now-abandoned $1.3-billion iPads-for-all project.