Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly.
Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, 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 (including Prentice Hall and Allyn & Bacon) 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.