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10-09-07
BKFK and Pearson Foundation Launch the "Digital Arts Challenge" Winner To Take Home $10,000
STAMFORD, CT - October 9, 2007 - By Kids For Kids (BKFK) and the Pearson Foundation (LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO) today announced the "Digital Arts Challenge," a nationwide digital arts competition created to recognize and reward exceptional young storytellers who make use of digit...
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09-28-07
USO Helps Pearson Set New Record In Global Reading Campaign
ARLINGTON, VA - September 28, 2007 - The USO partnered with Pearson to help families of service members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan take part in Jumpstart's Read for the Record 2007 Campaign, which set a new world record for the number of people reading the same book on ...
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09-21-07
Pearson Helps Break World Record for Largest Shared Reading Experience
NEW YORK, NY - September 21, 2007 - Pearson people helped set a new world record yesterday for the largest "shared reading experience" as part of Jumpstart's Read for the Record 2007, breaking the world record for the number of people reading the same book on a single day. ...
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09-21-07
Global Reading Campaign Makes History While Raising Awareness and Funding for Early Education in Low-Income Communities
NEW YORK - September 21, 2007 - The Pearson Foundation helped make history yesterday as hundreds of thousands of children and adults read the classic The Story of Ferdinand across the U.S. and in Latin America. The reading campaign raised more than $1 million for the...
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09-20-07
Follett Book Stores Across the Country Partner with The Pearson Foundation to Support National Reading Campaign
WOODBRIDGE, IL - SEPTEMBER 20, 2007 - Today, Follett Higher Education Group bookstores along with the Pearson Foundation, made history joining hundreds of thousands of children and adults across the country to break the world record for the number of people reading the same ...
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09-20-07
Global Reading Campaign Makes History While Raising Money and Awareness for Early Education in Low-Income Communities
NEW YORK, NY - September 20, 2007 - Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign made history today by breaking a world record for the second year in a row with an early morning kick-off on Rockefeller Plaza with NBC's TODAY Show hosts Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira participatin...
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09-14-07
Early Education Campaign to Make History as Americans Read the Same Book on the Same Day
NEW YORK, NY - September 14, 2007 - Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign kicks off its second annual reading campaign with the official 2007 campaign book, The Story of Ferdinand, hitting retailers’ shelves today (books are available at Toys "R" Us, American Eagle...
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09-12-07
September 20th Charity Event to Break World Reading Record
Pearson Foundation Extends Support for Jumpstart for Young Children with Nationwide Book Donations to At-Risk Preschoolers
Penguin Young Readers Group Publishes Special Custom Edition of Children's Classic the Story of Ferdinand to Benefi...
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07-10-07
Pearson Wins 2007 ECS Corporate Award
DENVER, CO/UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ.- July 10, 2007 "“ The Education Commission of the States (ECS) is honoring Pearson with this year’s ECS Corporate Award, which recognizes sustained commitment to, and substantial investment in, improving public education. Pearson is the fir...
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06-26-07
Pearson Foundation Announces New Digital Arts Alliances
ATLANTA, GA. - June 25, 2007 - The Pearson Foundation today announced a series of new partnerships, programs, and funding commitments with members of the Digital Arts Alliance, the consortium that promotes digital arts in K-12 education through fully funded and staffed progr...
