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Publishers in the News – October 30, 2007

Published by Erica Nielsen on October 30, 2007 in In the News. 0 Comments

Updates on: Pearson Plc, Houghton Mifflin Co., Agilix Labs, Inc.

Pearson Plc, which provides testing for nurses and business-school students, won a contract from the U.S. Department of Education to measure the progress of students and the quality of public education. From 2008 to 2012, Pearson will handle the U.S.’s National Assessment of Educational Progress. — Bloomberg

Brothers and Citi will begin syndicating this week a $7.15 billion bank loan backing Boston-based educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Co.’s acquisition of the Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann divisions of Reed Elsevier. — Reuters

Agilix Labs, Inc., a leader in distributed e-learning solutions, today announced it has joined the IMS Common Cartridge Alliance, an organization that supports the development, distribution and maintenance of open source tools to facilitate the Common Cartridge standard. By joining this alliance, Agilix renews its commitment to support all learning content created by publishers in the Common Cartridge format, and incorporating these standards into future product releases. — BusinessWire