Pearson admits to monitoring students' social media use during its online tests

Pearson, the world’s largest maker of textbooks and academic materials, has admitted “monitoring” the social media use of students using its tests. In a letter obtained and published by the blog Bob Braun’s Ledger, Elizabeth Jewett, the regional high school district superintendent for Watchung Hills, New Jersey, told colleagues she had been made aware through the New Jersey department of education that a student had tweeted about an upcoming exam.

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