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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

birth rates soon translate into fewer graduating high schoolers after 2025. It shut down four campuses after it purchased for-profit Kaplan University in 2018 and converted it to a public four-year university called Purdue Global. But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers.

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Beer making for credit: Liberal arts colleges add career tech

The Hechinger Report

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. “We The courses are being run in partnership with Kaplan and will also be available to alumni. “We

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ASU’s Starbucks Deal Was Just the Beginning

Edsurge

Starbucks’ goal is to have 25,000 students graduate from this program by 2025. There’s been a lot of talk about the recent deal that involves Purdue University buying for-profit Kaplan University, which surprised many people (and the faculty have signed a resolution opposing it). So we’ve got 6,000 in the College Achievement Plan now.

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The mindboggling barriers that colleges create — and that end up hurting their own students

The Hechinger Report

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Policymakers and politicians want 60 percent of the population to have higher-education certificates and degrees by 2025, up from 45 percent now , but progress toward that goal is behind schedule. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. The Getting Smart blog predicts that “By 2025, Swarms of Self-Driving Vehicles Will Transport Students to Learning Sites.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. More from Inside Higher Ed , from Edsurge ( disclosure alert !),

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

billion by 2025. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023.

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