Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has acquired ELLIS (Salt Lake City, UT), a provider of English language training software for kindergarten through adult learners.

Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. (Upper Saddle River Saddle River may refer to:

Saddle River, New Jersey, a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey
Saddle River (New Jersey), a tributary of the Passaic River in New Jersey

, NJ) has acquired ELLIS (Salt Lake City, UT), a provider of English language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. training software for kindergarten through adult learners. The acquired company will be integrated into Pearson Digital Learning (PDL See page description language.

1. PDL - Page Description Language.
2. PDL - Program Design Language.
3. PDL - Push Down List.
4. PDL - Dave Lebling, one of the co-authors of Zork. ; Scottsdale, AZ), a provider of information technology and services for the pre-K-12 market. ELLIS offers a suite of products containing more than 1500 hours of interactive instruction. Ellis' programs are supported by help and translation in over 45 native languages, as well as by a library of print materials on teaching and learning English.

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