There’s more bad news for Pearson, the world’s largest education company and testing behemoth.
The state of New York just announced that it was dropping Pearson as its testing vendor and instead was giving a $44 million, five-year contract to a smaller Minneapolis-based company called Questar Assessment Inc. Under a $32 million contract that ends this December, Pearson developed the Common Core-aligned tests that have been given to New York students for several years and that have sparked repeated complaints by students and educators about the validity of some questions.
