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Scrivener7

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1. Skimmed it, but never quite got the name of the company. It's Pearson, right?

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Fri May 16, 2025, 09:20 AM

May 16

We've known Pearson is peddling crap at least since Finland ditched them and went to curricula that's actually based on past success and child neuro development. And immediately, they began blowing the doors off all the countries that use Pearson, including the USA and the UK in terms of reading and math proficiency in lower grades, and STEM proficiency in later grades.

That's about 20 years ago now. But Pearson makes a lot of people a lot of money. They make the books, they make the tests, they make the teacher training books, they make the teacher certification tests, and all of what they push is crap.

And we've known it forever.

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