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The Testing Industry's Big Four


The Testing Industry's Big Four | Testing Our Schools | FRONTLINE

Those four companies are Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB McGraw-Hill, Riverside Publishing (a Houghton Mifflin company), and NCS Pearson.

Testing. Teaching. Learning? | Testing Our Schools | FRONTLINE

... tests scores alone. The Testing Industry's Big Four. A look at the four companies -- three test publishers and one scoring firm -- that dominate the market ...

The Four Corporations – Education:The Civic Issue of Standardized ...

The four corporations are Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB McGraw-Hill, Riverside Publishing (a Houghton Mifflin company), and NCS Pearson.

Testing Companies Mine for Gold - Rethinking Schools

Three companies have traditionally dominated the market for developing tests: Harcourt Educational Measurement, CTB McGraw-Hill, and Riverside Publishing. All ...

A Huge Publisher and a Big Testing Company Are Teaming Up ...

Four key questions to consider about how the pairing of Houghton ... Indeed, experts in the education industry who spoke with Education ...

Report: Big education firms spend millions lobbying for pro-testing ...

The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as ...

The Testing Industrial Complex: Texas and Beyond

ProQuest Dissertations &. Theses Global. PBS. (2000). The testing industry big four. ... Inflated test scores gains: Is the problem old norms or teaching the test ...

The ACT's private equity takeover and the future of testing

... major shake-up for the standardized testing industry ... As faith in the value of four-year degrees diminishes and interest ...

Corporate Testing: Standards, Profits, and the Demise of the Public ...

The testing industry's big four. Available at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ pages/frontline/shows/schools/testing/companies.html. Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of ...

DRC/CTB - Wikipedia

... four major companies in the industry. In 2011 CTB acquired Bookette ... ^ "The Testing Industry's Big Four". PBS. Retrieved 21 June 2011. ^ "CTB ...

Steven Singer: A New Ed Tech Goliath Enters Standardized Testing ...

Private equity sees a $6.8 trillion dollar public golden goose ready to be plucked, and the testing industry is only one small element in their ...

It's a $1.7 Billion Testing Market (But It's a $600 Billion Ed. System)

Standardized testing is quite the piñata these days, and one of the sticks being wielded most often to batter the assessment industry is its ...

The Billion-Dollar SAT Industry is Facing an Existential Crisis

Given the inability of students to access testing, more than 660 additional four ... The big winner of the test-optional movement could be student ...

Pearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby ... - PR Watch

Pearson, ETS, Houghton Mifflin, and McGraw-Hill Lobby Big and Profit Bigger from School Tests · Pearson Education: Apart from $8 million spent ...

Testing & Educational Support in the US - Market Research Report ...

The industry's two largest companies dominate the educational testing services market, but there aren't any major educational consulting firms. Access ...

Massive downsizing at ETS, legacy assessment company

The testing industry is going through a period of turmoil and change. The ACT, the organization that runs its namesake test, was purchased ...

The Testing Culture and the Persistence of High Stakes Testing ...

With the demand for tests growing, the testing industry can expect to see a ... The big test: The secret history of the American meritocracy. New York ...

Standardized testing: The multi-billion dollar industry | The Apple Leaf

School testing corporations spent $20 million lobbying for policymakers in pursuit of federal and state testing mandates, according to a report ...

A Private Equity Firm, The Makers of the MAP Test, and an Ed Tech ...

... big 4 standardized testing companies until only a decade ago. With ... Industry Mergers Increase Taxpayer Cost for Inferior ...

Standardized test - Wikipedia

... tests, academic tests, or tests given to large numbers of test takers. A ... ^ "The Testing Industry's Big Four". PBS Frontline. PBS. 2001. Retrieved ...