The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. Later they analyzed voter turnout data in their neighborhoods and developed plans for educating younger peers, family members and neighbors about elections.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2021

As the school year comes to an end and districts evolve into new models of teaching for the fall, so too must Edmentum continue to grow to meet those needs. a global leader in education technology, is committed to helping educators individualize learning for every student through simple technology, high-quality content, and actionable data.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” Investors go to the event for private meetings. 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.” They go to play golf. Fair enough.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. Later they analyzed voter turnout data in their neighborhoods and developed plans for educating younger peers, family members and neighbors about elections.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

DePauw University last year started promising job placement or a free additional semester to graduates who meet certain guidelines but don’t have a job within six months. 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.

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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. The degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Schools are finding it difficult to meet the needs of a diverse student population. Participants agreed that any research approach must consider the local context, so that data is meaningful for decision-making. Here too, developers can look beyond RCTs and use other methods to quickly collect data, such as short-cycle pilots.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Emily Kaplan, for The Hechinger Report. At least once a week, the student and teacher meet to choose academic units from Edgenuity’s library — all the lessons are aligned to California state standards and are curated by the school — and to schedule times for the student to take Edgenuity’s unit exams on campus. SACRAMENTO, Calif.

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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. That simplicity is wildly compelling to school districts.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. ” DonorsChoose data scientist Barbara Cveni? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. New data tells a surprising story.” Roombas, for example.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The district failed to meet its burden of proof and interpreted a state law in a way that is ‘offensive to fundamental rights of free speech,’ the judge said.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Meanwhile on Campus.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via NPR on Sunday : “ President Trump Set To Meet With Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities.” ” Via NPR on Tuesday : “ Trump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting.” ” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” A master of science in data journalism from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” 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. News at 11.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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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. ” Via NPR : “Data Shows 99% Of Applicants For A Student Loan Forgiveness Program Were Denied.” ” There’s more data on student loans in the research and data section at the bottom.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Senators Introduce Bill to Keep Government Research Data Publicly Available (Preserving Data in Government Act).” Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Or something else?

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. ” Edsurge wants you to “Meet Two Leaders Trying to Reinvent College.” Illuminate Education and Key Data Systems and IO Education and SchoolCity and Alpine Achievement are all merging. million total.

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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). ” Materials in other court cases against Corinthian showed that the school paid recruiters based on meeting enrollment quotas. That’s what I do.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

” Via Texas Monthly : “Meet the Women Whose Persistence Made Texas A&M Change Its Sexual Assault Policies.” million from Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the Twilio.org Impact Fund, New York Ventures, Excell Technology Ventures, GingerBread Capital, and u2i. ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “After Meeting With DeVos, Title IX Activists Say They Still Have Many Questions.” Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. and from Hacker News.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Testing, Testing… “At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society,” says Scientific American , publishing a Q&A with Sternberg about his concerns.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Via The Journal & Courier : “Purdue disputes claims Kaplan deal leaves taxpayers on hook.” ” Via Spectrum News : “Despite dearth of data, firms sell brain training as autism antidote.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.

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Hack Education

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. Via Pacific Standard : “ Purdue University Gets the Final Approval on Its Plan to Convert Kaplan Into a Non-Profit College.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The company had kept the breach secret for over a year, paying the hackers $100,000 to delete the stolen data. The fine print: Kaplan’s current owner, Graham Holdings, would continue to take some of the revenue from the school as it would serve as an OPM, of sorts (an online program management company), with a contract lasting 30 years.

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