About Pearson
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Copyright 2012 Pearson Education, Inc. or its affiliate(s). All rights reserved. NEW EMPLOYEE ORIENTATION | 2012 Pearson Businesses Pearson The world’s leading learning company, Pearson provides learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students of all ages and in more than 70 countries. Financial Times Group The FT Group provides news, data, comment, and analysis to the international business community. It is known around the world for its independent and authoritative information. Penguin Group Penguin publishes more than 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books each year—on paper, on screens, and in audio format—for readers of all ages. It is one of the world’s leading consumer publishing businesses and an iconic global brand.
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Pearson Businesses
Pearson
The world’s leading learning company, Pearson provides learning materials, technologies, assessments and services to teachers and students of all ages and in more than 70 countries.
Financial Times Group
The FT Group provides news, data, comment, and analysis to the international business community. It is known around the world for its independent and authoritative information.
Penguin Group
Penguin publishes more than 4,000 fiction and non-fiction books each year—on paper, on screens, and in audio format—for readers of all ages. It is one of the world’s leading consumer publishing businesses and an iconic global brand.
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Our Values
Our products, customers and technologies are changing fast but some things in Pearson stay the same. In everything we do, we aspire to be…
Brave Imaginative Decent
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Our Values, Valuing Our People
Mission: To empower Pearson People by providing WorkLife resources, tools and education that helps them to succeed at work and beyond.
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2011 Worldwide sales:
$9.3bn
Pearson at-a-glance
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40,000 employees in 70+ countries educating 130+ Million People
Our Global Reach: Offices in 60+ countries
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Financial Times
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Penguin
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The Pearson FoundationA belief in giving back
WeGiveBooks
Jumpstart
Teacher of the Year Program with CCSSO
Pearson Prize for Higher Education
Mobile Learning Institute
Pearson International Education Summit (Finland)
BookAid International (Africa)
Bridgeit (Tanzania, Philippines)
Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots Program (Tanzania)
The Citi-FT Financial Education Summit/Global Youth Summit (Singapore)
The Pearson Foundation extends Pearson’s commitment to education by partnering with leading nonprofit, civic, and business organizations to provide financial, organizational, and publishing assistance across the globe. The foundation aims to make a difference by sponsoring innovative educational programs and extending its educational expertise to help in classrooms and in local communities.
Examples:
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Pearson is Going Green
• Solar panels on the roofs of our facilities in Old Tappan and Cranbury, NJ and a wind turbine at our facility in Owatonna, MN.
• Green recognitions: EPA Green Power Award, End Carbon Brand Emissions Leader, Global Leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE for Good.
To learn about more green initiatives, visit Planet Pearson on Neo.
We think about our environmental impact as part of everything we do.Our environmental commitments help shape our thinking about what we publish, how we manage the buildings we occupy and how we develop relationships with our business partners.
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The A&I group is the largest provider of educational assessment services and solutions in the United States.To maintain this status they:
• Develop, score and process tens of millions of student tests every year.
• Mark school examinations for the US federal government, 20 American states, and score more than 100 million multiple-choice tests and 30 million essays every year.
• Score the National Assessment of Educational Progress
(the only federal nationwide test), and college entrance exams.
• Leverage new digital technologies to provide richer, timelier feedback to teachers, students, parents and policy makers
What We Do
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Preparing Students for College and CareersPreparing Students for College and Careers
• Move beyond snapshots of student achievement
• Capture complex performance
• Track student growth over time
• Leverage new digital technologies to provide richer, timelier feedback to teachers, students, parents, and policymakers
• Will be integrated into a next generation teaching and learning system
Next Generation Assessments:
