Yet again, Pearson, the world’s largest education company, finds itself in the center of a storm of criticism. This week, it was blasted after its computer-based  Common Core testing platform in New Jersey malfunctioned and the state was forced to postpone the tests for grades 3 to 8 and 11. David Hespe, the education commissioner of New Jersey, called the problem “totally unacceptable,” a sentiment echoed by Laura Slover,  spokeswoman for PARCC, the multi-state consortium that created the Common Core test with Pearson, which said in a statement: “These kinds of mistakes are unacceptable.” Meanwhile, in the magazine Wired, an article in the April edition titled “Pearson’s Quest to Cover the Planet in Company-Run Schools” by Anya Kamenetz, details the company’s efforts to open low-cost private schools around the world, an effort Pearson says is designed to help populations where there is little or no public education. Kamenetz looks at it differently.