(Inside Higher Education) by Jim Jump. What’s your favorite Steve Buscemi moment? It’s hard to top the wood chipper scene from Fargo, but I’m partial to his definition of irony from Con Air. As a hijacked plane full of escaped convicts takes off with the convicts singing and dancing to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” Buscemi’s character wryly […]
Read More »(The Chronicle of Higher Education) by Andy Thomason. Updated (4/27/2017, 11:53 a.m.) with news of the finalization of the purchase and more details on the deal. Purdue University’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday morning to buy the for-profit Kaplan University, which is a division of the Graham Holdings Company. The surprise announcement was first […]
Read More »NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Test Prep’s most recent survey of college admissions officers from 361 of the nation’s top-ranked schools finds that 78% give an edge to prospective students who complete and perform well in Advanced Placement (AP) courses compared to those who don’t*. Within that 78%, 20% describe that edge as “significant,” while 36% consider […]
Read More »NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaplan Test Prep will hold the industry’s first-ever free, live, online ACT Prepathon on Saturday, March 25, between 12 PM ET and 6 PM ET to help students get ready for the April 8 Test Day. This innovative prep event will feature live expert instruction from some of Kaplan’s most highly rated teachers […]
Read More »NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new Kaplan survey of nearly 1,000 PSAT students reveals why so many aspiring college students put so much effort into doing well on the exam: to get better prepared for the SAT® and to earn money for college*. The findings come as 3.8 million test takers across the country who took the […]
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