Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Kaplan Test Prep. Kaplan Test Prep is one of the original names in SAT/ACT prep. The website program is tied to the author’s popular book, The Perfect Score Project, on preparing for the SAT. Perfect Score Project focuses on the tips and strategies most likely to help students excel at the SAT test.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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MAY 18, 2022

Evernote also allows you to use your smartphone camera to scan hard copy documents (like other students’ notes, the whiteboard, or your textbooks), which saves you from carrying around a back-breaking load of books. Also, it’s kinda pretty to look at, which helps since you’ll be spending so much time here!

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How Educators Can Have Courageous Conversations Inspired by Joyful and Diverse Books. Systems Leadership for Equity Part 1: Belonging and Support for Equity. How Schools Can Serve the Whole Child: Aligning Supports to Catalyze Student Success.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 11, 2016

Lisa Ciaranca Kaplan is the principal of Andrew Jackson Elementary in Philadelphia and the national winner of the 2015 Escalante-Gradillas Prize for Best in Education. ” To prepare for her keynote speech at the Content in Context 2016 conference, Kaplan asked educators in her school how publishers could make a difference.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Being good at reading is not just about getting through a book, but remembering what you read, reporting on it to others, and transferring this information to other parts of life. Collect these into a digital library that kids can access online, see what friends are reading over the summer, and find books that appeal to them.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A relatively thick English book on the corner of this young Turkish girl’s desk. Why did you pick up this book?” Seeing her read that book changed me. Seeing Elif reading that book to learn more about Anne Frank in a society where people made anti-semitic comments in public on a regular basis meant my work mattered.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

From research on gap years for my book “ Choosing College ,” students exploring this opportunity—and educators considering what it means for them—should understand four things about the upcoming year. In ordinary times, students taking a gap year often used that time to pursue opportunities for meaningful in-person experiences.

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edWeb.net

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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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I I like early market. I like being able to grow and scale things,” Keehn says. “I Screen fatigue is real.

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edWeb.net

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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 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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edWeb.net

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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Rachel Kaplan, a 16-year-old from Northbrook, Ill., At the Northbrook Public Library, where Kaplan is a Teen Advisory Council member, interest was so high the event turned into Teen Tech Month. “We For Kaplan, Teen Tech Week activities were a natural outgrowth of her love affair with Northbrook’s library, which began two summers ago.

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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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eSchool News

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., Comments like, “O-M-G.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

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. I heard the former CEO of Kaplan say “hundreds if not thousands of colleges will close in the coming years.” “We know it works.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc. He is the author of 24 books and several hundred articles about technology, learning, business, and human progress.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Historically, if you go back to 1960 and before, the side that was pro-curriculum said, "We're going to pick the books you need to study. Over time there have been curricular versus non-curricular struggles. We're going to structure it. They don't have any interest in the Minerva Project. It definitely is, at least from a structure.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Attendees will also hear from other speakers including Heather Hiles (Deputy Dir Solutions for Postsecondary at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Bror Saxberg (CLO at Kaplan), and more. Here’s a sneak peek at our calendars for next week, including all the sessions and happenings that you (and we) don’t want to miss.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Parents allow you to go beyond the covers of the book.” Marisa Kaplan contributed research. There’s an emotional bond,” Hirsch-Pasek says. Naturally, one challenge for remote educators is replicating these strong emotional bonds when they may have never even met their students in person. That’s just how kids are built.”

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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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edWeb.net

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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Donations The estate of Roald Dahl has donated four of Dahl''s most beloved books -- Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- to Worldreader , which means they''ll be available as part of the e-reader literacy program in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Hack Education

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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

According to David Callahan, editor of the website Inside Philanthropy and author of the 2017 book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy , philanthropists have more power than ever before, and “that influence is likely to grow far greater in coming decades.” Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator.

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Hack Education

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., As McMillan Cottom documents in her book Lower Ed , “the typical for-profit college student is a woman and a parent. Two closures might not make a trend … yet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Yet another student book exchange. Kaplan , Princeton Review , Tutor.com … the list goes on and on. Startups that are attempting to build the following tools are at least 10 years too late to the party, especially if they’re attempting to tackle the US market. How are you better than. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Yet another LMS.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” “ Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers,” Popular Science reports. This and other findings are in the latest Pew Research on “ Book Reading 2016.” Samsung will recall some 2.5

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. Meanwhile on Campus… Via the Dallas News : “Self-published ‘ Pepe the Frog ’ kids’ book is conservative but not alt-right, Denton ISD admin says.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

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. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education. .” ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Nature’s Nathaniel Comfort reviews the new book Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are : “ Genetic determinism rides again.” “ Boys Don’t Read Enough,” says The Atlantic.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

And before you sic your PR team on me, yes, I realize that Purdue Global is not a for-profit, even though it’s mostly a rebranded Kaplan. Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon ’s children’s book subscription ‘Prime Book Box’ opens to all in the US.” A new study suggests it should spend more.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below. ” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below.

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