Pearson Announces Publishing Distribution Agreement with Microsoft Press CK-12 Teams Up with Microsoft a rich library K-12 content at no cost

Mar 12, 2014

http://www.pearsoned.com/pearson-announces-publishing-distribution-agreement-with-microsoft-press/#.U0KxjI1OWpp

http://blog.ck12.org/blog/bid/378529/Microsoft-Teams-Up-with-CK-12

CK-12 announced a global collaboration with Microsoft to provide students and teachers using Windows with access to a rich library of K-12 STEM content to use, at no cost, in their daily learning and teaching. We’re very excited about the potential of providing millions of deserving K-12 students with a high-quality education.

The CK-12 platform now allows educators to prepare students for upcoming state standardized testing by assigning math & science practice problems easily and see reporting on student progress immediately upon completion of practice.

Teachers are able to customize their content, create tests and quizzes, access robust analytics and dashboards for monitoring student progress. Students have access to a wealth of resources including flashcards, study aids, quizzes, interactive practice and more all at their fingertips on any Windows device.

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This information was just released in 2014. It does not justify what has yet to be decided in the courts to discriminately layoff, that's illegal. Follett hired people at substantial higher salaries than those they let go. Follett invested 50 mil "outside" of their core company into a highly risky company. I do not think the actions of Follett are justified, it was a path that they decided to go down it was not the only business approach they could have chosen. I think the decision was made out of fear which usually doesn't have the optimal results. I do think the new hires from Kmart and Sears like that the fact that Wall Street can no longer comment on the management decisions though.

Huh? Welcome to this century, information. Employees should be informed, it's a win win. Well informed employees the same as citizens make better decisions for the good of all. If there is a reason you want to keep people under a mushroom mentality that's like going back to the dark ages. If on the other hand you want innovation then you want a society being it the government you live in or the company you work for to have the best informed people possible. If you are scared of that then look within not at a website post.

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What does this have to do with you getting laid off? Well, seems to justify it, right?

With Parson already having the most comprehensive educational tools and digital delivery being used by most of the Universities that rely heavily on online classes teaming up with Market Guru MS which is already hooked into all learning facilities from preschool to gradate schools not to mention the financial resources available and brand name. Amazon is not the largest competitor any more ...

What kind of impact is this going to have on Follett?

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