Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the global leader in integrated education publishing. With such renowned brands as Pearson Prentice Hall, Pearson Longman, Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson Addison Wesley, Pearson NCS, and many others, Pearson Education provides quality content, assessment tools, and educational services in all available media, spanning the learning curve from birth through college and beyond.
Pearson Education is also the global leader in online learning with nearly 2,000 textbook companion Web sites, the InformIT Website for technology professionals, and the Family Education Network, the award winning online resource for parents, teachers, and children. Pearson Education is the world`s leading educational and professional publisher. The imprints that make up Pearson Education describe a rich educational and literary heritage. They stretch back to 1725 when Thomas Longman published the first book typeset by Benjamin Franklin. The Scott Foresman imprint, dating back to 1889, taught generations of Americans to read with the first Dick, Jane, and Spot stories. Law professor, Dr. Charles Gerstenberg, and his student, Richard Ettinger, founded Prentice Hall in 1913. Taking their mothers` maiden names—Prentice and Hall—to name their new company, Gerstenberg and Ettinger would create the premier U.S. publisher of academic, business, and professional books. Today, Pearson Education has the most widely trusted and respected programs in educational and professional publishing. The following chronology documents the history and evolution of Pearson Education.