Pearson Education
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| Parent company | Pearson PLC |
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| Founded | July 29, 1998 |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, England |
| Key people | John Fallon (CEO) |
| Publication types | Textbooks |
| Number of employees | 40,000 (2009) |
| Official website | www |
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. They were formerly located in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
Pearson has a number of publishing imprints:
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. 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.
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