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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 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. Ferreira boasted at a Department of Education “Datapalooza” in 2012 that “We literally know everything about what you know and how you learn best, everything. billion by 2023.

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