The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

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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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

The overarching story goes as follows: adaptive learning platform Knewton was founded in 2008 by former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, affectionately described by Michael Feldstein as a snake oil salesman. But, don’t worry—they had plenty to say about Knewton. The company raised $182 million, but only sold for $17 million.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Thirty-five colleges and universities shut down in 2021, a 70 percent decrease from 2016, when a peak of 120 colleges shuttered, according to an analysis of federal data by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO). First, the numbers. Very few of any of these closures took place at public colleges or universities.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 24, 2020

In an edWebinar sponsored by the Kaplan Early Learning Company, “Happy and Calm: The Best Tools for Mindfulness Now,” children’s yoga expert and award-winning recording artist Bari Koral introduced mindfulness exercises that can help children reduce the “noise” of negativity to improve their well-being over the long term.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2019

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows these opportunities are on the rise, with 284,000 manufacturing jobs added in 2018. She previously worked in online education marketing, helping places including Kaplan, University of Phoenix and 2U recruit students. But that’s hardly the case. In total, an estimated 1.4

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

She joined in 2018 after serving as an executive at different education organizations including Kaplan, Charter Schools USA and the New York City Department of Education, where she worked under then-chancellor Joel Klein. billion in venture capital across 505 deals, according to a report based on Pitchbook data.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. The Fulton, Md.-based

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Prior to joining Curriculum Associates, Rob served as CEO of Jumpstart, a national nonprofit preparing preschoolers from low-income backgrounds for success, and as CEO of the K12 tutoring division of Kaplan Education. Rob also served as an operating executive at private equity firm Berkshire Partners. About Curriculum Associates.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. MANCHESTER, Ky.— Aleah Wolsey, 5, is one of those students. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. This skills-based hiring trend has real momentum and is also evidenced in analysis of employer job postings and other data sources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Some call it “The Rise of the Machines” for the convergence of multiple technologies: artificial intelligence, big data, data science, robotics plus virtual and augmented reality.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Grayer, who was the CEO of Kaplan for more than a decade before starting Weld North in 2010, said his plan has always been to amass an empire of digital curriculum offerings. “My Today, the team numbers 35 employees, who will all join Weld North Education. It would be centered on digital curriculum.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Kaplan also uses Examity for its nursing test-prep services. According to London, all data collected during a test session is encrypted and stored on the company’s own servers. Some students have complained to college administrators that having someone peer into their dorm or home environments can feel invasive.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials.

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Edsurge

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

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. Former Kaplan CEO Makes Big Moves in Education Market.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Later they analyzed voter turnout data in their neighborhoods and developed plans for educating younger peers, family members and neighbors about elections. The Oakland City Council is committed to funding and implementing the measure if it is approved, said Kaplan, Measure QQ’s author. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

They just weren’t releasing transparent data,” says Enbar. But legacy for-profit players had pushed into the nascent boot camp space: In fact, Dev Bootcamp was acquired by Kaplan in 2015, and the Iron Yard had been purchased that same year by Apollo Education Group—which also owns University of Phoenix. (

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2021

Andy Kaplan, Managing General Partner at Education Growth Partners, Apex’s prior investor, said “We look forward to seeing Apex and Edmentum further raise the bar for digital learning and better prepare students for success. Edmentum, Inc.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In 2013, co-founders and childhood friends Kim Taylor and Cecilia Retelle started Ranku out of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, raising $500,000 in seed funding led by Mark Cuban, GSV and Microsoft Ventures. But in order to understand online degree analytics you have to have real-time data.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our professional guests: Lian Chikako Chang, a "data storyteller," started the Pandemic Pods group on Facebook in July; just weeks later, the group includes more than 35,000 members. 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.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 20, 2015

The University of New Haven has teamed up with Galvanize, one of those upstart coding schools, to create GalvanizeU, a 12-month master’s program in data science based in San Francisco. Organizers didn’t assemble a data-science degree by grabbing a few computer-science courses from here and mathematics courses from there.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

There is new data about charitable giving to American colleges and universities, and it demonstrates that we’re doing it wrong. Kaplan, survey director for CAE.” Kaplan, survey director for CAE] said. This system is broken, in short. The latest information illustrates major, challenging trends in higher education.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I heard the CEO of edX claim the phrase “data science” didn’t exist a decade ago. I heard the former CEO of Kaplan say “hundreds if not thousands of colleges will close in the coming years.” Wikipedia actually traces it back to 1997.). ” I heard three different people repeat that old Arthur C.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. By Alexa J.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. Students can use the credits toward developing mobile apps on Google App Engine or experimenting with machine learning using Vision API and Translate API, among the other data and system administration tools available on the platform. The grant is only offered in the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. government’s data center, Dava.gov, is a goldmine of open student and school data. But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. Thursday, March 9 K-12 9:30 a.m.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Later they analyzed voter turnout data in their neighborhoods and developed plans for educating younger peers, family members and neighbors about elections. The Oakland City Council is committed to funding and implementing the measure if it is approved, said Kaplan, Measure QQ’s author. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

more personalized feedback, faster markup of performance practice, media and text working together, not at cross-purposes), we can look to technology to make that activity more available, reliable, affordable, data-rich, and personalized. We are beginning to see technology entering the fray, providing new capabilities and data for learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Rice University in September added a financial technology program to the data analytics and cybersecurity boot camps it launched last year with Trilogy Education Services. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in August became the latest to team up with the coding school Thinkful.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

He ran Kaplan as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, during which he oversaw 67 acquisitions and more than doubled the company’s revenue—to nearly $2 billion —by the time he left. The Kaplan Connection With Glynlyon under its fold, Grayer claims that Weld North Education’s suite of tools will reach more than 6 million U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Our current obsession with educational data has its roots in very similar attempts: to quantify. Every time you hear someone talk about “student data,” imagine them saying “students’ life blood” instead. How do you turn a craft, a practice into a discipline? You invoke history, sure. Montessori.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. Research and Data The American Academy of Pediatrics has long suggested that parents limit the amount of television their young children watch. Ars Technica has a good write-up of the research.

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