When John Oliver, on his HBO "Last Week" show, did a recent segment on the problems with standardized testing, the one company that he mentioned at some length was Pearson - and that's no surprise. Pearson is the largest education company in the world (Fortune magazine says it may control up to 60 percent of the U.S. testing market), and it has become a high-profile target of opponents of high-stakes standardized testing.
How dominant is Pearson in American public schools? Oliver noted that it is possible for American students to take Pearson-designed testsJohn Oliver
Daily Show alum John Oliver has turned his keen wit toward net neutrality. In a scathing 13-minute segment of Last Week Tonight, Oliver astutely points out that the cable companies are winning the net neutrality fight by making it so boring that it slips right under the average person’s radar. Hence, instead of “net neutrality,” […]
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