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K12 Inc. Wins Multiple Awards from the United States Distance Learning Association
06 May 2010
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K12 honored for excellence in distance learning in 2010
K12 Inc. announced today that it won multiple awards from the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) for excellence in the field of distance learning.
The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) presented its 2010 International Distance Learning Awards to K12(R) in conjunction with its 2010 National Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. The prestigious International Awards are presented annually to organizations and individuals engaged in the development and delivery of distance learning programs.
K12 won the 21st Century Best Practices Award for its high quality, nationally-recognized online school programs for students in kindergarten through high school. This award is given to an agency, institution or company that has shown outstanding leadership in the field of distance learning. It recognizes pioneering organizations that have changed distance learning and ...
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Kaplan University: A For-Profit Take On Education
06 May 2010
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The Washington Post Co. announced Wednesday that it's putting Newsweek up for sale. The magazine is losing money, and its paid weekly subscriptions have dropped below 2 million.
But although the Washington Post Co.'s flagship newspaper is also losing money, the company is surprisingly profitable because of a shrewd acquisition it made more than 20 years ago in a growing sector of the economy: for-profit higher education.
What Is Kaplan University?
In 1984, Stanley Kaplan — who pioneered standardized test prep courses — sold his business to The Washington Post Co. In 2000, Kaplan Higher Education bought a company called Quest. One of Quest's properties was Hagerstown Business College in Hagerstown, Md., which then became Kaplan College and later part of Kaplan University.
Last year, according to the Washington Post Co.'s annual report, Kaplan accounted for 58 percent of the company's revenue — and it was profitable. Newspap ...
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Trucking: `the best blue-collar job'
14 Nov 2009
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Dominique Penen swung her petite frame up into the cab of a big-rig truck, flexing arm muscle and biting her lower lip. Once settled in the driver's seat, Penen, 47, of Hallandale Beach turned and beamed.
``My kids are not at home now; it's time for me to enjoy work, enjoy my life.''
Penen, who currently works in customer service for T-Mobile, is training for her certified driver's license at The Commercial Driver's License School in Miami. The school has been training drivers since 1963. President and director Albert Hanley boasts a diploma from his school is ``a license to work.''
Penen said she sees long-haul trucking -- delivering loads to 48 states -- as a way to see the country and get paid while doing it.
Hanley said she isn't alone, although women make up less than a third of the country's big-rig truck drivers. His school is seeing a growing number of female truckers and other nontraditional students, ...
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Travis High School Student Earns Perfect SAT Score
14 Nov 2009
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Travis High School junior Nikita Kanora earned a perfect score of 2400 on her SAT Reasoning Test, scoring 800 points in all three sections of the test, which includes math, critical reading and writing. This was her first attempt at taking the test.
Nikita serves as a Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Ambassador, a tutor for the Fort Bend Literacy Council, vice president of her school’s Spanish National Honor Society and of the Debate Club, a member of Youth Expanding Services and the Science Olympiad Team and treasurer of the math honor society, Mu Alpha Theta.
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