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The lede is about Pearson's acquisition of Sparrow, an adaptive learning company, but the bulk of this article provides a lot of useful background about boat Sparrow's approach and into Pearson's activities in the ed tech space, and in particular, the Global Learning Platform, which is the adaptive-learning engine of the company. "The plan is to move all of its higher-ed offerings, including digital textbooks, onto it by the end of 2020."

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