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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Questions can also be used to prompt students to do research and find answers in books and videos, as well as on safe web sites. This broadcast was sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company. Kaplan Early Learning Company is a leading international provider of products and services that enhance children’s learning.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

Special Education: What COVID-19 Has Taught Us and How We Can Take Lessons Learned Into Re-Entry.

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JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Dr. Jean: Brain Breaks to Help Students Move and Learn presented by Dr. Jean Feldman, Teacher, Consultant and celebrated Author of more than 20 books on the topic of early education, sponsored by Frog Street Press. Kaplan Early Learning Company is a leading international provider of products and services that enhance children’s learning.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

I work on a freelance basis, turning your company's data into earned media coverage by telling compelling, data-driven stories through graphics and text. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc.

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APRIL 20, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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JANUARY 8, 2017

Jean: Brain Breaks to Help Students Move and Learn presented by Dr. Jean Feldman, teacher, consultant and celebrated author of more than 10 books on the topic of early. S/he Hit Me First : Learn Proactive Solutions to Teach Social Emotional Skills through Daily Conflict presented by Jill Molli, M.A.,

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APRIL 20, 2018

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. But by and large, the kinds of pithy claims you find in the kind of non-fiction books that Gladwell writes and the kind that they sell at airports seems to have been accepted as Scripture. “We know it works.”

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype?

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

The company is also lifting some of its "per-seat" licensing fees so that those not enrolled in classes aren''t charged for accessing the material. The non-profit organization has a collection of more than 56,000 books which it''s delivered on Kindles, to some 600 students in Ghana and Kenya. Definitely worth a listen.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

Anti-racist books are good for white students, but children of color need racially affirming books that address racial and social issues they might have to navigate and solve and present Black characters with a sense of agency to maneuver through these challenges. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Join me today, Tuesday, January 8th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com interview with David Risher, co-founder and CEO of WorlldReader , a US and European non-profit whose mission is to make digital books available to children in the developing world, so millions of people can improve their lives. But I think I’ve lost the key.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

I’ve written two books on the monsters of education technology; I’m publishing a third in the series at the end of the year. We tend to read the book as a cautionary tale about science gone awry. “Books will soon be obsolete in schools” – Thomas Edison, 1913. I will still try to be brutally frank.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies. Learn Capital is closing on a seed investment vehicle dubbed “ LearnStart ,” which has already invested in a Finnish company, 3DBear. One of its investments announced this week is in Aula , a London-based company that just closed a $4.2

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JULY 22, 2017

Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., and The Iron Yard, owned by the Apollo Education Group (parent company of the University of Phoenix). Two closures might not make a trend … yet.

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JUNE 17, 2017

Bloomz , ClassDojo , Remind ), established companies ( SchoolMessenger ), and other deep pocket players from learning management system providers that already boast significant traction here. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Yet another student book exchange. Parent communications platforms. Facebook is.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.”

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AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company.

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JUNE 23, 2017

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. ” (Among those education companies in Binary Capital’s investment portfolio : Educents.).

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Prior to the department spending $6 million on iPads, Apple spent more than $5300 on meals and lodging for state Superintendent Mark Johnson and five other education officials to visit the company’s HQ. Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon ’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the US.”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.”

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AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below. ” Labor and Management.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” (Wow.

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JUNE 29, 2018

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. Department of Education officials sent a letter to DeVry University ’s parent company, Adtalem Global Education Inc. Via The Guardian : “ Laura Ingalls Wilder ’s name removed from book award over racism concerns.” ” asks Edsurge.

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JUNE 16, 2017

An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” ” The company has raised $16.5 Rather, the company takes 25 percent of the gain or loss when the house gets sold again. (If

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

According to an investigation by The Associated Press , “dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts – including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation.” million from the company between 2010 and 2015 before he stepped down from his role there.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The company alleges in a lawsuit, which became public on Monday, that the Education Department’s process for selecting companies for its new loan servicing platform has been unfair and violated federal procurement rules.” The tutoring company has $494.2 ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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JULY 14, 2017

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Tutoring company Clark has raised $2.2

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.”

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JUNE 2, 2017

” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. No disclosure , no surprise, that Edsurge shares investors with this company. Inside Higher Ed writes about accreditation and the “Fine Print and Tough Questions for the Purdue-Kaplan Deal.” Accreditation and Certification.

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DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Read The New York Times review of her book. For a complete look at who funded learn-to-code companies this year, visit funding.hackeducation.com.).

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

The phrase “PayPal Mafia” is used to describe the group of PayPal founders and employees who’ve gone on to become some of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, forming additional technology companies and investment firms and becoming millionaires (and in a couple of cases, billionaires) in the process.

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MARCH 9, 2018

” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below. Now the company is betting big on both,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” asks Ron Srigley in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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