The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Many students “could get an associate’s degree, but there’s something bureaucratic that’s standing in their way, like a parking fine, a library fine, they didn’t pay the graduation fee.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

come together for a morning meeting and then spend an hour in the library or doing dramatic play before nap time and a hard stop at 3 p.m. Later there might be a story read aloud or a group activity mixing paints to make new colors before Jones dives into another round of one-on-ones. They’d have breakfast at 8 a.m.,

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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 Chronicle of Higher Education reports that an investment firm run by Jonathan Grayer, the former CEO of Kaplan, has acquired Learning House , a company that helps colleges develop online degree programs. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Buley Library at Southern Connecticut State University protesting a contract proposal that includes an increase in teaching loads. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Matt Odom/NBC Credit: Matt Odom/NBC. READ THE STORY: A solution to the cycle of poverty?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. She motivates me a lot.”.

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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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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Career Education Colleges and Universities , a trade group for the for-profit college sector , this week called on the U.S. Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. ” Accreditations and Certifications and Competencies. ” Testing.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Saxberg had previously been the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan (and Edsurge, when covering the news , fails to disclose its financial ties to Kaplan ).

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” There’s more immigration news in the courts section and in the “labor and management” section below.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.”

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bipartisan group of influential U.S. ” The New York Times looks at “ anti-tax fervor ” in southern Oregon , which will result in the one public library in Roseburg closing its doors. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.”

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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. The NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Will this “new university” become a public university?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

She decried an Obama era policy forgive the loans of students defrauded by for-profit schools: “all one had to do,” she told a group of Republicans in September , “was raise his or her hands to be entitled to so-called free money.” SoFi, the student loan company. In April, he orchestrated something else altogether.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. Looks like Kaplan Inc isn’t getting out of for-profit higher ed altogether, even with the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue.). It’s an amazing amazing breakthrough. ” This WSJ commentary is bonkers.

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