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Tag Archives: Pearson
Pearson Is Everywhere: Spying and Student Data Privacy Edition
Welcome back to Pearson Is Everywhere!
Last time we looked at Pearson being selected to create the PISA 2018 tests.
Today, we’ll be checking out how Pearson is spying on students using social media and Pearson’s claims about student data privacy in Colorado. Continue reading
Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, Testing
Tagged PARCC, Pearson, Pearson is Everywhere, SBAC
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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, Pearson, 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 A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, EDUCATION, Testing
Tagged Common Core Aligned, Pearson, Pearson is Everywhere
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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 A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, NC DPI
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
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
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