The Christensen Institute

MAY 30, 2017

The Purdue/Kaplan deal , if successful, would neatly solve challenges for both institutions. A tie-up with Kaplan is likely his best shot. Kaplan University is facing declining enrollment and increased regulation along with the rest of the for-profit sector. The deal with Purdue represents an opportunity to shed the baggage that comes with for-profit status, stabilize the business, and provide Kaplan with steady margins. Kaplan’s 12.5

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TeachThought - Learn better.

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Thinking About Your Content Area: Kaplan’s Depth & Complexity Chart by TeachThought Staff Framing content is among the most powerful strategies teachers have to engage students and promote deep understanding of content. The post Thinking About Your Content Area: Kaplan’s Depth & Complexity Chart appeared first on TeachThought.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

There are many unanswered questions about the unprecedented sale of Kaplan University, a for-profit institution with several online programs but falling enrollments, to Purdue University, one of the top public universities in the nation. To try to get some answers, EdSurge recently sat down with Donald Graham, chairman of Graham Holdings Company, the group that sold the 15-campus Kaplan University to Purdue (for just $1). What are the functions that Kaplan will be providing?

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Purdue University agreed today to buy one of the largest for-profit universities, Kaplan University, and turn it into a public, non-profit university in the Purdue system. The sale price for Kaplan University’s 15 campuses was $1 , though with one important catch: The new nonprofit university operated by Purdue promised to give a percentage of its revenue back to its former owner, Kaplan, Inc., Before the sale, Kaplan University was not exactly thriving.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Purdue University President and the former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels recently announced plans to acquire seven for-profit schools and colleges from Kaplan University — along with more than 30,000 online students and some 3,000 current Kaplan employees. Donald Farish.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

APRIL 2, 2015

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Leadership Lounge

JUNE 12, 2017

When Purdue University announced on April 27 that it was buying Kaplan’s online university business, shock waves went through the higher education community. The deal specifies that Purdue will pay $1 to Graham Holdings for Kaplan University’s institutional operations and assets, but it's still pending approval from the U.S. The for-profit Kaplan will earn money through a 30-year revenue sharing agreement.

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MiddleWeb

DECEMBER 5, 2019

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

In addition, BoomStartup announced it will be applications for its ed-tech accelerator program, and Kaplan launched a new global leadership and professional development practice. Kaplan Launches U.S. cities where Kaplan already maintains other operations and educational services, the company said in a statement. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Kaplan Launches New Practice in U.S.;

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 1, 2015

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NPR Learning and Tech

MAY 4, 2017

Some 32,000 students from the for-profit Kaplan University will join Purdue University in Indiana as part of a deal announced recently. Image credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

And here’s the most surprising part: that online school it bought, Kaplan University, was a for-profit business—part of a sector that’s been criticized for high costs and poor outcomes for students. Purdue leaders, meanwhile, say that Kaplan has better outcomes than other for-profits and that it serves an important audience of adult students who aren’t able to go to a traditional campus. EdSurge: Purdue made news last year when it purchased the for-profit Kaplan University.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

acquisition by Kaplan in 2014. It appears that the Kaplan ownership did not stave off the financial concerns for long. But actually, to the contrary, we would have closed much earlier without Kaplan's support. Kaplan bought us time. —

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The Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In college speak, there are things like credit hours, regional and national accreditation, and liberal arts colleges—which, as Kaplan’s Brandon Busteed has noted , many mistakenly believe means that a college is politically liberal.

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The Christensen Institute

JUNE 1, 2018

The Purdue/Kaplan deal fits in this category. Purdue partnered with Kaplan because it wanted to pursue an entirely new value proposition: online education for adult learners. Rather than mashing the two schools together, Kaplan’s assets were kept completely separate from Purdue’s main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana, and will be managed autonomously as Purdue University Global. Deal fever is slowly creeping into higher ed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Since Purdue University purchased for-profit Kaplan University last year to create what is now Purdue University Global, faculty members have raised questions and concerns about how these two very different models of higher education would fit together. In her letter to faculty, Vandenbosch said that a committee had already begun reconsidering the use of the agreement even before media reports about the controversy, and that it was a 10-year-old policy inherited from Kaplan University.

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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. Coincidentally, all three competitors are currently run by CEOs who previously worked at Kaplan, he noted.

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Educational Technology Guy

MARCH 23, 2015

Their mission is to "bring quality test prep to kids who can''t afford shelling out hundreds / thousands of dollars for the (often mediocre) instruction that the Kaplans and Princeton Reviews of the world provide".

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

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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. Philadelphia.

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The Christensen Institute

AUGUST 1, 2019

Other recent high-profile closures include Dev Bootcamp (owned by Kaplan) and The Iron Yard (owned by Apollo). In early 2017, we wrote about the potentially disruptive trajectory of Level , a bootcamp built by Northeastern University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 12, 2019

“This was one of the best trainings I have ever attended—and I have been in education for many, many years.” ” If you get some down time over the holidays, it’s a great time to catch up on some of the most popular edWebinars of 2019!

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2019

It’s hard to make an informed choice for your child, let alone your employees,” said Jon Kaplan, chief learning officer at Discover Financial. Kaplan means his company worked with Guild to narrow down which schools aligned with the programs Discover wanted to support.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Our #1 program of the year, Understanding and Addressing Challenging Behaviors in the Classroom, hosted by Kaplan Early Learning, has had over 4,500 live and on-demand views. “I never know what I don’t know until I attend edWebinars!”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Kaplan Test Prep. Kaplan Test Prep is one of the original names in SAT/ACT prep. Taking the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) has become a right-of-passage for high school students as they leave formal education and enter the next phase of learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2017

Saxberg had previously been Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan Inc. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative said today that Dr. Bror Saxberg will join the organization to “lead our efforts to improve and accelerate the use of learning science and ‘learning engineering.’” Saxberg is widely known through education for his work on the science of learning—namely, research and development that aims to bring an analytical approach to understanding what shapes learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2019

She previously worked in online education marketing, helping places including Kaplan, University of Phoenix and 2U recruit students. The allure of “tech jobs” and the salaries they command have given rise to new industries, from coding bootcamps to specialized recruiters. Yet the likes of Google and Facebook sometimes overshadow sectors that have been—and remain—core to the American economy: industrial manufacturing. It’s in this niche where Cluster operates, and is growing.

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Wisewire

MARCH 5, 2019

” Companies like Bridgepoint Education and Kaplan, as they refashion themselves to spin off their degree-granting activities into nonprofit institutions, are trying to enter the space, and are being closely observed by potential competitors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. At Kaplan, I came to see even more clearly how government policy drives some of the biggest successes in education technology—and exactly how policy’s invisible hand can be 10 to 100 times more powerful than Adam Smith’s free market when it comes to education. Kaplan thrived during the decade, growing to more than $2.8

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

The move comes nearly a year after nonprofit Purdue University announced plans to purchase the online for-profit Kaplan University for $1. The deal translated to Purdue acquiring Kaplan’s 32,000 online and campus-based students and nearly 3,000 employees. Grand Canyon Education, a publicly-traded education company, announced today it has sold Grand Canyon University for $875 million to form a nonprofit.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2018

If Purdue University’s purchase of the for-profit Kaplan University can be thought of as a wedding, there were plenty of people in the audience shouting objections throughout the ceremony. EdSurge: What was your initial reaction to the news that Purdue University would be buying Kaplan to create an online wing? However, hasn’t Kaplan University long been accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, which also accredits Purdue University? It’s irrelevant to Kaplan.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the September 2016 Summit to Expand Research Use in Education , educators, technology developers, and researchers met to address an essential question: How can we work together to expand research use in the design, development, and improvement of education programs, products, and practices?

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