deeply committed to student privacy and strongly support the spirit of the SIIA pledge. We’re currently in the process of performing a comprehensive review of our organization as well as developing a new privacy center for our website that will communicate information about our privacy practices for students, parents, and educators. We fully expect to sign the pledge in the coming months.
The new analysis also says that such lobbying has been lucrative for the companies, helping to fuel a testing industry that is worth nearly $2 billion a year. For example, here’s what it says about Pearson, the largest education company in the world