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The company now operates public schools under management contracts from charter schools or school districts. A new corporate entity called Connections Education was established in early 2011. [ 6 ] In this same year, on September 15, 2011, Pearson , an international learning company, acquired Connections Education for more than $400 million.
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster 's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman . [ 1 ]
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Pearson eCollege is an on-demand, or software as a service (SaaS), provider of eLearning software and services to secondary and post-secondary learning institutions and is owned by Pearson PLC. ECollege was founded in 1996 as Real Education, the company went public in 1999. [3] as eCollege.com (NASDAQ: ECLG) and acquired by Pearson in 2007 [4]
Poptropica is an online adventure game game, developed in 2007 by Pearson Education's Family Education Network, and targeted towards children aged 6 to 15. Poptropica is primarily the creation of Jeff Kinney, later known as the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. As of 2015, he remains at the company as the Creative Director. [2]
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