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. She described the challenges her school faces at the Association of American Publishers’ Pre-K-12 Learning Group conference.

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Edsurge

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. What would’ve been some alternatives then?

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 30, 2013

From their blog: "The MentorMob team will be spending the next 13 weeks in NYC participating in the Kaplan/TechStars EdTech Accelerator Program. The panorama photo above showed the 200+ people who kindly joined us for our panel discussion. Thank you everyone who showed up to learn with us! MentorMobbing the Big Apple!

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. I heard the former CEO of Kaplan say “hundreds if not thousands of colleges will close in the coming years.” I heard the CEO of edX claim the phrase “data science” didn’t exist a decade ago.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

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). I’ll send her off to a traditional school, and most of the people at this conference probably are graduates of traditional schools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. their classes in the last year have seen students’ work recognized in published papers and presented at industry conferences. Microsoft’s cloud service, Azure, doesn’t fall too far behind, having launched in 2010 and doing business with GE Healthcare and DocuSign.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! The conference schedule is now online, with all 160+ sessions, and an individual hour-by-hour schedule calendar for all 36 time zones. The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

There have been some calls recently that education technology needs to become a discipline – which I guess implies that the field is not one already, despite all the journals and departments and degrees and jobs and conferences and gatherings (like this one). The rationale for a discipline: more coherence, more prestige. Montessori.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” He has backed these initiatives financially; and he has backed the publications and conferences that promote these sorts of efforts. CZI hired Bror Saxberg , whose previous work was with the for-profit online charter school K12 Inc and the for-profit college Kaplan, as its learning scientist. The policy and the discourse.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. When to Buy, When to Sell It’s only fitting at this conference that there’d be at least one session with this exact title. The Innovators of Color award was front and center.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below. ” This new school is a result of Purdue’s acquisition of the for-profit Kaplan University. “UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus,” says The Guardian.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The most notable conversions were Purdue University’s purchase of for-profit Kaplan University and the University of Arizona’s purchase of for-profit Ashford University. Despite the more friendly regulatory environment after Trump took office, though, some for-profits have re-incorporated as nonprofit institutions in recent years.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Contests and Conferences. ” Via Edsurge : “ ISTE Wants to Be More Than Just a Conference. ” There’s more “upgrade” news in the conference section above. .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Contests and Conferences. ” Based on what one sees at an education conference. million from Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the Twilio.org Impact Fund, New York Ventures, Excell Technology Ventures, GingerBread Capital, and u2i. Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill with “Notes on EDUCAUSE 2018.”

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Hack Education

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.” Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences ,” says Edsurge. ” Via Edsurge : “What Is ‘Quality’? ” Fox. .”

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Hack Education

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. It’s almost as though the narrative about “failing schools” doesn’t care much about students’ creativity. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

.” There were some high-profile academic hires however, including John Vogel (Dartmouth), Don Sexton (Columbia), Jack Kaplan (Columbia), and Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon). Vogel was one of the professors who stood with Trump at the press conference in 2005 announcing the launch of Trump University.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., Peter Thiel.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

The Atlantic writes about the absence of Betsy DeVos at this year’s Education Writers Association conference. Inside Higher Ed writes about accreditation and the “Fine Print and Tough Questions for the Purdue-Kaplan Deal.” Via The Washington Post : “Eighth-graders from N.J. refuse to be photographed with Ryan.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Knewton founder Jose Ferreira formerly worked at Kaplan. The education technology company Edsurge, for example, positions itself as a news organization while also promoting conferences and services selling ed-tech services to schools. The Princeton Review? The Gates Foundation? Netflix’s CEO believes in personalized learning.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

There’s lots more from Betsy DeVos’s talk at SXSWedu in the conferences section below. ” 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. ” Conferences and Events.

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