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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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

Kaplan Test Prep is launching a free, live PSAT preparation program beginning October 1, with lessons that cover every section of the exam. Free for all students, Kaplan’s PSAT Prep Live will give the 3.8 The PSAT is the kickoff to the college admissions process, and a great score can get students on the college radar for recruitment and scholarship money,” said Lee Weiss, vice president of college admissions programs, Kaplan Test Prep.

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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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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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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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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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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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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2017

Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., That is, they’d become subsidiaries of the for-profit colleges Kaplan and the University of Phoenix respectively – coding bootcamps as “ the new for-profit higher ed.”

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

For-Profit Education Kaplan Online Learning Publishing cigeducationgroup kaplan newyorktimes nyteducation sothebysinstituteofart The media conglomerate and CIG Education Group are combining to create NYT EDUcation, an initiative for pre-college and college students and professional learners.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

In an article published in, of all places, Delta’s Sky Magazine , writer Allison Kaplan details her interview with generational expert and author David Stillman on how Generation Z will begin graduating from college this year and what businesses should expect.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2016

Kaplan Test Prep is launching a free, live PSAT preparation program beginning October 1, with lessons that cover every section of the exam. Free for all students, Kaplan’s PSAT Prep Live will give the 3.8

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K-12 Schools - Education News

MARCH 6, 2016

However, Lee Weiss, Kaplan Test Prep’s vice president of college admissions programs, advises those studying to take the exam not to skip the essay.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The group studied ideas from Providence Public High School in Rhode Island, the work of Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey , Maureen Devlin at Wayland Public Schools, the Open College at Kaplan University , and various other templates.

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Leadership Lounge

AUGUST 19, 2017

Their recent acquisition of Kaplan (details still being worked out) and their strategic alliance with Infosys, an India-based tech services company, will position Purdue as a leader in workforce development, utilizing online course delivery as a large part of that equation.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 7, 2017

To be sure, not all university personnel are eschewing social platforms’ value; Kaplan’s study in 2015 suggested that 40 percent of surveyed institutions based potential freshman acceptance rates partially on candidates’ web social interactions. Guest Article Written By: Bob La Loggia.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

We’ve been so fortunate to work with sponsoring companies who’ve helped ensure that these are very valuable and collaborative experiences, including Frog Street Press, Gryphon House, Music Together, and Kaplan Early Learning.”.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Dev Bootcamp, a Kaplan-owned coding bootcamp pioneer, announced last week that it will be closing its doors in December. The Iron Yard, a Greenville, S.C.-based based coding bootcamp, is closing up shop. The school wrote in a blog post today that it will be ceasing operations at all of its 15 campuses around the U.S. after its current 12-week session finishes. “In

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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

MAY 9, 2017

While it is something of an outlier, the r ecent purchase of for-profit Kaplan University by Purdue University is one of the clearest examples of the ascendance of service-oriented enablement businesses. And, on the Kaplan side of the equation, the deal appears to be an assessment that the long-term future of building profitable businesses in education is more about servicing universities than in owning and operating them.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 1, 2015

Ed-tech Incubators and Accelerators accelerator donburton edgeedtech jonathanharber kaplan schoolnet startup techstars Two ed-tech veterans have joined forces to launch an accelerator in the Big Apple to provide $170,000 in funding to each of 10 selected companies.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

There was a big announcement recently that Purdue University is essentially acquiring Kaplan University for a dollar and creating a new type of public university. It’s a shift for [the for-profit education] sector where it feels like Kaplan has essentially determined that rather than owning and operating a university entity, that the future of business in this domain is services, a long-term contract, sort of repositioning our assets.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

Previously, Grayer was CEO of Kaplan, the education company that grew into a $2 billion business over his 14-year tenure. Former Kaplan CEO Makes Big Moves in Education Market. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Nancy Lee Sanchez, in red, executive director of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, with students she advises. Sanchez is one of the increasing number of outside coaches finding surprising obstacles that colleges put up in front of students. Photo: Michael Hunnicutt.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2015

How every school can create a great STEAM program. For a while now, schools have been slowly merging science and math lessons with visual arts as a way to add a hands-on component, and perhaps a dash of culture, to ordinary STEM curriculum.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

It last raised $7 million in a Series B round led by Kaplan Ventures. Just as plants are pruned to support longer, healthier lives, Treehouse , an online coding education startup, is trimming down. Today, the Portland, Ore.-based based company laid off 22 of its 104 employees, amounting to 21 percent of its team. The company offers online courses in business, design and web and mobile programming. Subscriptions for individuals cost $25 per month or $250 per year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

ESSDACK, GoEnnounce launch digital citizenship curriculum. ESSDACK has collaborated with GoEnnounce to build an affordable digital citizenship curriculum for secondary students titled Your Digital Footprint.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Two big companies, Kaplan and DeVry, quit APSCU last year. In this April 28, 2015 file photo, students wait outside Everest College in Industry, Calif., hoping to get their transcripts and information on loan forgiveness and transferring credits to other schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

With more than $14 million in support from philanthropies including the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Open Up Resources partners with expert content creators to make best-in-class OER curricula available to school districts everywhere.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. EdSurge: Let’s start with the big news of the month: Purdue and Kaplan.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

The strategy has worked for a few older companies: Kaplan, for instance, began in the test-prep business and has since moved into higher education, corporate training (and a. The bull is back—or is it? After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S. edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. According to our tally, there were 58 U.S. deals that totalled more than $887 million through June of this year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Venture capital and public company investments poured into the space, with Kaplan's acquisition of Dev Bootcamp in 2014 marking the start of the expectations “Peak.” Numbers have not been released publicly by Kaplan but it will be a great partnership for the two companies, and Kaplan has shown commitment to marketing and growing the company.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. Everyone once in awhile they decide they want to get into education,” Palmer says, from Washington Post’s purchase of Kaplan in 1984 and LinkedIn buying Lynda.com in 2015. New Markets is bringing back a familiar face to steer its next education investment fund. Jason Palmer has returned to New Markets Venture Partners , where he spent two years beginning in 2012 as an entrepreneur-in-residence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2017

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. ( which also owns Kaplan, is an investor in EdSurge.). This article is part of a series on the future of coding bootcamps.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 3, 2013

When it comes to college about 24% of admission officers admit to tracking applicants on various social media sites to check an applicant’s digital footprint, according to a 2011 Kaplan Test Prep survey. According to a study by Internet se curity company AVG , two thirds of HR managers will browse social media profiles of candidates.

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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. Seattle-based software company Ranku announced today its acquisition by academic publishing company John Wiley & Sons. Ranku offers a recruitment platform using predictive analytics to help colleges increase online degree enrollment.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 1, 2016

Former Kaplan CEO Making Big Moves in Education Market. Edgenuity today announced its acquisition of Compass Learning, bringing together two well-known ed-tech companies whose digital offerings will now span kindergarten through 12th grade. Terms of the sale were not disclosed, but Sari Factor, CEO of Edgenuity , said the combined companies will have about 500 employees between Edgenuity’s Scottsdale, Ariz., headquarters and the Austin, Texas, offices of Compass Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Even the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue University represents a different competitive approach. I did say to the CEO of Kaplan, who's a good friend, "Welcome to our space." Chip Paucek is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. After two other startups sputtered, Paucek cofounded and runs 2U, which made its debut on the public market in March 2014. It closed that first day at $13.90 and has since grown to more than $50 a share.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Kaplan, survey director for CAE.” Kaplan, survey director for CAE] said. There is new data about charitable giving to American colleges and universities, and it demonstrates that we’re doing it wrong. This system is broken, in short.

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