Apple selling PowerSchool

It's sad, if you ask me. Apple sells a great service to an educational publisher that's much more concerned with profits than with education (having worked for Pearson Education for 8 years, I can attest to that). And, don't forget, Pearson has royally screwed up its scoring of SATs (more than once) as well as its running of the Medicare information phone lines. Last, but not least, why should one, single publisher get to control an iPod-based partnership with so many school systems?

Funny thing... I was just thinking the same thing a few days ago, myself! Now granted, I am a Pearson user, so these sorts of things are more likely to be on the top of my head. But *wow*. Too bad for Centerpoint, the web based SIS perason acquired fairly recently. I wonder what will happen. Or maybe they are just buying up all the players! http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/products/centerpoint/index.htm

Maybe that's why they are selling it? :P

I thought that Apple was moving away from the word "power" :-P

Apple’s commitment to education has never been stronger, which is why we’re excited to broaden our relationship with Pearson.

Man, yesterday some people in my class were all talking to the teacher about PowerSchool; odd timing.

This was reported on think secret yesterday, no need to predict the future, just be mor eup to date with your news