The Pearson Graduate: How Private Companies Are Profiting From Texas Public Schools

Texas Observer:

It's not hard to imagine Pearson's vision of utopia.

Pearson is a London-based mega-corporation that owns everything from the Financial Times to Penguin Books, and also dominates the business of educating American children. The company promotes its many education-related products on a website that features an idyllic, make-believe town. It's called Pearsonville, and it looks like the international conglomerate version of SimCity. In this virtual town, school buses whizz through tree-lined streets, and the city center features skyscrapers and a tram.

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Comments

[jimall3]

09:51 PM on 10/12/2011

The make believe city of "Pearson" looks like Honolulu, Hawaii. Like almost exactly.

[goofy2]

04:55 PM on 10/12/2011

This is a good, balanced article that, I think shows that we spend too much of our resources on testing - treasure and time with the always moving promise of results out there somewhere. Companies mesmerize educators with a blizzard of data and ambitious rationales that don't do much to effect results but get the companies in-charge and deep into the school's pockets.

[fortressfountain]

04:44 PM on 10/12/2011

Definition of deruglation=you get a low wage job for the opportunity of a private company to take something over and trade on wall street.