Pearson, the world’s largest training company, has come under fireplace this week for a page in one of its nursing textbooks — which options racist stereotypes about minorities. Pearson is a London-based mega-company that owns every thing from the Financial Occasions to Penguin Books, and also dominates the business of educating American kids. The schooling subject was dealing with new and vehement demand for extra testing and accountability in schools.

Along with the large testing contracts, No Youngster Left Behind requires faculties that fail to satisfy necessities three years in a row to offer free tutoring. In addition to that challenge, the corporate cited a difficult competitive and market surroundings” and the excessive capital wants of the digital curriculum market as reasons for its announcement of a strategic evaluation of that portion of the enterprise.

Over the past 25 years, the share of scholars positioned in applications for Studying Disabilities …