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Apple selling PowerSchool
Today Apple announced that London based Pearson is acquiring PowerSchool. What's PowerSchool you ask? It is a web based Student Information System that Apple acquired awhile back. Pearson will be adding new features to PowerSchool, as well as creating educational content for iPods.The oddest thing about this story? Yesterday I was thinking to myself, 'I wonder what Apple is doing with PowerSchool.' Perhaps I can control the future!
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bryan said 10:03AM on 5-25-2006
This was reported on think secret yesterday, no need to predict the future, just be mor eup to date with your news
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John Russell said 10:18AM on 5-25-2006
Man, yesterday some people in my class were all talking to the teacher about PowerSchool; odd timing.
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Timon said 10:23AM on 5-25-2006
Apple’s commitment to education has never been stronger, which is why we’re excited to broaden our relationship with Pearson.
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Victor said 10:25AM on 5-25-2006
I thought that Apple was moving away from the word "power" :-P
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Ethion said 11:52AM on 5-25-2006
Maybe that's why they are selling it? :P
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Jeffrey said 11:12PM on 5-25-2006
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
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Peter said 7:04AM on 5-26-2006
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?
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