A Kaplan program like this can cost a school well into the tens of thousands of dollars. Kaplan coaches are taught to handle the strangenss of each new workplace by falling back on their highly scricpted lessons and by quickly indentifying school faculty as one of several possible archetypes.Whether they are "trailblazers" with their schools or dreaded "saboteurs." ( Kaplan's SAT program is one of an array of test-prep courses that the company is contracted to "deliver" in schools nationwide.
Many educators argue that the gains from prep courses are negligible and the programs themselves ultimately harmful, since they drain precious funds and class time.Kaplan has acquired Achieva, a provider of online course materials to schools, and SpellRead,a national "reading-intervention" company.Kaplan's mission transcends the dysfunction and malaise that we're told we will find in failing schools.
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