Talk:Pearson Education

Year of establishment

I've altered the year of establishment from 1725 (when Longman's was established) to 1998 when Pearson Education came into being. (Longman's does need its own page, but I don't think it should be here) Dsp13 (talk) 21:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Headquarters?

I am confused.
The introduction to this article says that Pearson Education is headquartered in New Jersey, USA. On the other hand, the outline box on the right reads its headquarters are in London, England!
Could you please clarify in which place it is based?
Thank you.

148.224.206.130 (talk) 01:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Pearson the corporation is British. Pearson Education is a U.S. company under the Pearson umbrella. —PētersV (talk) 03:03, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

The headquarters information in the wiki article has now been fixed. The New Jersey US headquarters closed several years ago. The headquarters of the parent company Pearson plc is in the UK. Softlavender (talk) 02:59, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

New Riders

There is no New Riders article, but it is called for often due to the many book citations for the label. I plan to create New Riders, and link it to the Imprints section. Then to create New Riders Press and point it to New Riders.sinneed (talk) 02:55, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Que Publishing

This was typed "QUE Publishing" in this article. This is not an unusual typo, because the logo uses letter all the same size, inviting confusion. I am setting up a redirect to point QUE Publishing links to Que Publishing. sinneed (talk) 02:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

How is Que Publishing pronounced? I thought it was KWEE but it occurs to me that it could just as easily be KAY, CUE, KUHH (as in French), or KWAY. If there's an authoritative source, it should go in the article. I've never heard it spoken, myself. Snezzy (talk) 18:00, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

MyLabsPlus--Collegiate Use (Pearson Education)

I know that colleges like the University of Alabama do almost all of their undergraduate math using the MyMathLabs/mylabsenterprise [1] website. When I took math there, a I took math classes that were taught completely using MyLabsPlus. The instructor and math lab tutors would help students with difficult problems. Dreammaker182 06:49, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Here is a link to one of Pearson Education's collegiate products: eCollege[2] Dreammaker182 07:58, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that Pearson Assessment & Information be merged into Pearson Education (this article) as it doesn't seem to merit its own article separate from this one. ElKevbo (talk) 20:54, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

LAUSD Dispute

LA Times reported that LAUSD wants its money back from Pearson for non performance. Apple is also the subject of the dispute. Saltysailor12.46.103.194 (talk) 17:43, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

Merge Pearson Education with Pearson article

The article Pearson Education states the company changed names from Pearson Education to Pearson making this a second article about the same conglomerate company. All Pearson articles should be merged under one name to avoid confusion mentioning the name changes and updating activities of their international divisions instead of using different defunct names. Much of info is outdated and from primary sources like the company itself creating an inaccurate biased article. Editors should contact the company PR office to get updated info not on the websites, I guess. Primofacts (talk) 21:34, 12 May 2015 (UTC)

This is incorrect. Pearson plc has been a multinational conglomerate incorporating numerous industries since the 1840s. Pearson Education is a subsidiary of that conglomerate and did not even exist until 1998. Softlavender (talk) 02:55, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Merge with Pearson PLC

This article is a direct duplicate of Pearson PLC and contains many inaccuracies I would suggest a merge or deletion. Pearson PLC page contains more and more accurate information. LewisChu (talk) 08:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

That has been fixed now. Softlavender (talk) 02:52, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

InformIT (split discussion)

I cannot believe that someone simply renamed InformIT into InformIT (publisher), then article got vandalised, nominated for deletion whilst vandalised, and merged here. You can literally go to any bookstore and look at any major book in the computing section, including those not published by Pearson (see the list of other publishers in the article), and InformIT references will all be there. This must be un-merged back into InformIT (publisher), and then moved back into InformIT. The Australian Informit, as presently redirectled from disambig, doesn't even mention "informit" at all. MureninC (talk) 09:42, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

@MureninC: The article was merged as a result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/InformIT (publisher). Have you attempted to discuss this with the closer, User:MBisanz? Iffy★Chat -- 12:52, 6 March 2019 (UTC)

I agree with a split to a new article MureninC, MBisanz and Iffy, mainly because the redirect "Informit" takes one away from the Informit DAB page. This means that the user could easily miss the DAB page, which also includes a link to Informit (Australia), currently a redirect to section but for which I want to create a short article. However, the latter is a publisher of sorts though, albeit with other functionality, so the names might need further consideration. Laterthanyouthink (talk) 08:51, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Class action by photographers

Wu v. Pearson alleges that Pearson engaged in systematic copyright infringement by acquiring licenses for photos with limited scope and then exceeding the number of copies etc. which it had license for. Not sure if the case proceeded after the April 2012 order: https://dockets.justia.com/docket/new-york/nysdce/1:2009cv06557/349611
The class action was approved in 2011 and reported by some news at the time. Nemo 08:01, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

Company Name Change

In may of 2020 the name was changed from Pearson K12 learning to Savvas learning company. It is in the about us section of the homepage. The source: [3]https://www.savvas.com/company/learn-about-savvas/about-us Hvehireihghwit (talk) 15:52, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

I now have found independent citations for this and added the info to the wiki article. Softlavender (talk) 02:50, 1 February 2024 (UTC)