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Tag Archives: Pearson
The Common Core Weekend Reads – 03-15-15
These are the Common Core Weekend Reads for March 15, 2015.
This is a review of the past week of news on Common Core nationwide and in North Carolina.
Articles are organized by category.
Prior Edition of Weekend Reads: 03-08-15
KEEP READING — COMPLY, CITIZEN! PEARSON IS WATCHING. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, Testing
Tagged ASRC, James Milgram, Pearson, Sandra Stotsky, Weekend Reads
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Pearson Is Everywhere: PISA 2018
Welcome back to Pearson Is Everywhere! Last time we looked at how excited Pearson was about President Obama’s “free community college proposal. Today, we look at something I missed from December 2014. We’ll look at how Pearson is going to develop the PISA … Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, EDUCATION, LL1885, Testing, The Articles
Tagged Common Core Aligned, Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, Pearson, Pearson is Everywhere, PISA
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Pearson Is Everywhere: Getting Fat In North Carolina
Welcome back to Pearson Is Everywhere!
Last time we looked at how Pearson has a history of massive profits off the federal government.
Today, we’ll look closer at how fat Pearson has gotten off of the state of North Carolina.
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Posted in Common Core, LL1885, NC DPI, The Articles
Tagged Pearson, Pearson is Everywhere, Powerschool
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Pearson Equella Contract for NC Community Colleges: $35,284,419
I received the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) back on the Pearson Equella Contract with the NC Community Colleges System.
The contract takes advantage of some Race To The Top Funds.
The signed MOU includes language for “K-14” storage of “educational content and resources” through the creation of the “Learning Object Repository” or LOR. From what the MOU says, it looks like LOR is an upgrade or enhancement of the existing Pearson Equella “NCLOR”.
NCLOR has it’s own site “Explore The LOR”.
Mission Statement: “The mission of the NCLOR is to provide a centralized location for the acquisition, collection, sharing, and management of quality learning resources for all teachers in North Carolina.”
A few of the document highlights:
The signed intent to contract document cites Pearson receiving $1,309,805, but another ‘signed approval’ document says the amount wasn’t to exceed $1,155,808.
According to the DPI Project Management MOU, the Project manager is to be paid over $85 an hour.
Just for reference, according to page 36 of the State Board of Education’s large contract list, the total cost of this contract (#10037399) came out to be $35,284,419.39.
Broken out:
$18,832,611.39 State
$16,451,808.00 Federal (Race To The Top?) Continue reading
Posted in EDUCATION, NC DPI
Tagged Community Colleges, Education spending, Equella, LOR, NCLOR, Pearson
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More About “Project RED” And NC Ties
This past week, we posted a guest article called “Do You Know RED?” which went into detail about the Pearson Foundation project. In it, there was mention of Superintendent Edwards, from Mooresville.
This entry is a little more detail on Mr. Mark Edwards to add to the prior story. A reader who read “Do You Know RED” reached out to me and provided some more information. Below is what they sent to me and it is interesting – Mr. Edwards has extensive Pearson ties.
Quick reminder, Mr. Edwards has a really nice contract loaded with perks paid for by the NC taxpayers. Read the entire contract here.
Below are their comments to me, unedited except for formatting to suit the blog set-up. Follow the links provided, they are illuminating. The last one in the list especially which highlights his Vice Presidency at a testing company and his book had a forward in it from Common Core pushing Jeb Bush. Continue reading
GUEST POST: Do You Know RED?
is is a Guest Post from a concerned North Carolina Citizen.
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DO YOU KNOW RED?
Recently, I was following up on an associate’s suggestion about looking into digital textbooks. Do you know RED?
I stumbled upon “Project RED” from none other than the Pearson Foundation.
You may Pearsonnot know Pearson Foundation, but I’m sure you are familiar with Pearson Publishing. The very company set to make billions in profits connected to Common Core Standards. Since RED is such a friendly sort of ‘person’, pull up a chair and let’s delve into the family scrapbook. Related Read: Laying down the laptop laws
Let Me Introduce you
“Project RED” is short for ‘Revolutionizing Education’. The PDF report published on the Project that I’ll be referencing is from 2010, titled: ‘THE TECHNOLOGY FACTOR: Nine Keys to Student Achievement and Cost-Effectiveness’. Continue reading
Common Core Aligned: The GED
I had recently written how ACT was moving to a new test, ASPIRE, which is Common Core aligned. I mentioned the impact this would have on Homeschoolers and online learners opting out of public schools due to Common Core. Here is another hit on those same groups. Starting this year, 2014, The GED is now Common Core aligned. Continue reading
Posted in Common Core, LL1885, The Articles
Tagged American Council on Education, GED, Pearson
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