Cambium Learning Group

This article is about the education software company. For other Cambia including the science non-profit, see Cambia.

Cambium Learning Group

Company type	Private
Traded as	Nasdaq: ABCD
Divisions	Learning A-Z Lexia Learning Voyager Sopris Kurzweil ExploreLearning Cambium Assessment Kurzweil Education VKidz

Cambium Learning Group is an American education technology and services company that creates computer software and hardware products serving students ranging from pre-kindergarten to adult. Cambium Learning is a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.

History

The Dallas, Texas-based company was founded in 2003.

The company's business units are named Learning A-Z, Lexia Learning, Voyager Sopris, ExploreLearning, Cambium Assessment, Kurzweil Education, and VKidz.

After more than 18 years with the company, CEO John Campbell retired in May 2022, and was succeeded by Ashley Anderson Zantop.

Acquisition

Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) was bought in April 2005. In December 2009, Cambium Learning and Voyager Sopris Learning (formerly Voyager Learning Company) merged under the newly formed company Cambium Learning Group, Inc.

VKidz Holdings, Inc. was acquired in December 2018.

Cambium Assessment (formerly AIR Assessment) was acquired in January 2020.

In September 2020, in an all-cash deal, Cambium bought Rosetta Stone with an equity valuation of approximately $792 million. The acquisition would broaden Cambium's immersive learning services for students, administrators and individuals.

Cambium Brand Portfolio

Cambium Assessment delivers secure, reliable, and scalable assessment solutions that improve student performance while supporting state education accountability. Through proven technology, research-backed psychometrics, and advanced machine learning, the company’s solutions help reduce test time for students while improving educational outcomes.

The company currently serves more than 1/3 of U.S. students with numerous patents and industry-standard certifications for their work. In the 2021–2022 school year, they delivered more than 100.6 million tests to 1.36 million simultaneous testers, testing 15.3 million individual students. Their adaptive testing algorithm was the first of its kind to pass peer review in the United States, and they continue to push boundaries for student performance measurement.

Lexia®is a market-leading provider in the field of literacy education headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts. For nearly 40 years, the company has focused exclusively on literacy, offering a full spectrum of solutions for both students and teachers. Today, Lexia is a recognized leader in science of reading-based solutions, providing equitable opportunities to accelerate literacy gains for students of all abilities.

Voyager Sopris Learning® is part of Lexia. Voyager Sopris Learning's portfolio of reading, writing, and math intervention products with Lexia's literacy and language solutions, provide customers with a robust offering of solutions that meet the diverse needs of the growing education market.

ExploreLearning

Cambium Assessment

Kurzweil Education

Time4Learning

Learning A-Z

External links

• • Historical business data for Cambium Learning Group:
  • SEC filings