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Hack Education Weekly News

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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’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Or something else?

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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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.