Kaplan Doubling Down on Academic Subject Tutoring

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan, the world leader in test prep, is branching beyond its core business of preparing students for high-stakes exams, expanding into academic support to help college students and high school students who are taking college-level courses, such as AP® courses, succeed in the areas they consider to be the most challenging: science and […]

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The politics of math: Is algebra necessary to obtain a college degree?

(Los Angeles Times) by Rossana Xia and Teresa Watanabe. If you can’t simplify the following operation, chances are the state won’t let you graduate from community college: Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math deemed necessary to earn an associate degree or transfer to a […]

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