Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has agreed to acquire Effective Educational Technologies (Cambridge, MA), a company that produces online assessment and homework tutorial programs in physics, chemistry and astronomy.
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 agreed to acquire Effective Educational Technologies (Cambridge, MA), a company that produces online assessment and homework tutorial programs in physics, chemistry and astronomy astronomy, branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as planets, stars, and galaxies; more generally, the study of matter and energy in the universe at large. . The company's first program, MasteringPhysics, was launched two years ago and is currently in use by more than 25% of U.S. college students taking calculus-based general physics.
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