verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . may 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message pearson education parent company pearson plc founded july 29 1998 ; 18 years ago 1998 07 29 1 country of origin great britain headquarters location new york city new york publication types textbooks number of employees 40 000 2009 official website www.pearsoned.com pearson education is a british owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations as well as directly to students . pearson owns educational media brands including addison wesley peachpit prentice hall ecollege longman poptropica scott foresman and others . pearson is part of pearson plc which formerly owned the financial times . it was created in july 1998 when pearson plc purchased the education division of simon & schuster from viacom and merged it with its own education division addison wesley longman to form pearson education . pearson education was rebranded to pearson in 2011 and split into an international and a north american division . though pearson generates approximately 60 % of its sales in north america they operate in more than 70 countries . pearson international is headquartered in london with offices across europe asia and south america . their online chat support is based in the philippines . pearson north america is headquartered at 330 hudson in new york city new york . 2 they were formerly located in upper saddle river new jersey . 3 contents 1 imprints 2 partnerships 2.1 pineapple gate 3 technology products 4 cogmed 5 see also 6 notes and references 7 external links imprints edit pearson has a number of publishing imprints addison wesley professional formerly addison wesley 4 adobe press allyn & bacon bbc active 4 benjamin cummings causeway press 4 cisco press edexcel 4 envision math exam cram ft press formerly ft prentice hall 4 ginn and company 4 harvester wheatsheaf 4 heinemann formerly heinemann education 4 ibm press informit lifebound macromedia press maths champs mysql press new riders novell press oliver & boyd 4 payne galway peachpit pearson custom publishing 5 pearson longman formerly longman 4 pearson scott foresman penguin books pi press pitman 4 prentice hall 4 propero puffin 4 que publishing rigby 4 sams publishing silver burdett vangobooks textbooks wharton school publishing with wharton school york notes 4 partnerships edit pearson has partnered with five other higher education publishers to create coursesmart a company developed to sell college textbooks in etextbook format on a common platform . 6 in 2010 pearson agreed to a 5 year 32 million contract with the new york state department of education to design tests for students in grades 4 8 . greycampus partnered with pearson for higher education teaching learning solutions under the learningware brand . 7 que publishing a publishing imprint of pearson based out of seattle partnered with aarp in order to develop and add to a series of technology books for seniors . 8 the series which includes my ipad for seniors and my social media for seniors are large print and colorful . pineapple gate edit in the spring of 2012 tests that pearson designed for the nysed were found to contain over 30 errors which caused controversy . one of the most prominent featured a passage about a talking pineapple on the 8th grade ela test revealed to be based on daniel pinkwater s the story of the rabbit and the eggplant with the eggplant changed into a pineapple . after public outcry the nysed announced it would not count the questions in scoring . 9 other errors included a miscalculated question on the 8th grade mathematics test regarding astronomical units a 4th grade math question with two correct answers errors in the 6th grade ela scoring guide and over twenty errors on foreign language math tests . 10 most recently the wall street journal online reported british comedian john oliver reviewing problems with pearson s standardized tests on his hbo series last week tonight . 11 technology products edit pearson s products include mymathlab and mastering platform . cogmed edit pearson owns cogmed a brain fitness and working memory training program founded in 1999 by swedish researcher torkel klingberg . 12 13 see also edit list of largest uk book publishers notes and references edit pearsoned.com whois dns & domain info domaintools . whois . retrieved 2016 03 09 . contact us . retrieved march 1 2015 . pearson trims upper saddle river employees . retrieved may 1 2013 . a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o pearson education ltd the publishers association 16 april 2008 retrieved 8 february 2012 see the entry for pearson custom publishing under u.s. college group higher education at profile pearson general info . association of american publishers inc. 2016 . archived from the original on january 21 2016 . retrieved january 21 2016 . new agreement makes etextbooks available to students . learningware award at wes 2012 jury choice for best technology solution for higher education institutions . new tech books help people 50 get savvy . collins gail . a very pricey pineapple . the new york times . retrieved 22 august 2012 . haimson leonie . pineapplegate continues with 20 more errors and finally an apologia from pearson . nyc public school parents . retrieved 22 august 2012 . sarene leeds . john oliver rips standardized testing with help from a dancing monkey on last week tonight . wsj . cogmed working memory training history . torkel klingberg . external links edit official website usa official website canada official website india official website uk v t e pearson plc financial times group the banker fdi investors chronicle money management pwm vedomosti 33 % pearson education pearson school addison wesley dorling kindersley heinemann outside us modern curriculum press prentice hall scott foresman silver burdett york notes 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