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- Within a few years, the basement was overflowing with students and books. Stanley opened his first fully-equipped school in 1951, and a second in 1957.
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At first, he tutored high school students to take the New York State Regents Examinations, but in 1946, in response to a student's request, Kaplan expanded his business to include preparation for what was then called the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). [4]
Aug 13, 2018 · Stanley opened his first fully-equipped school in 1951, and a second in 1957. By the 1960s Kaplan, Inc. had 17 centres, coaching students not just for the SAT but for a whole range of potentially life-changing qualifications, such as the GMAT, MCAT and GRE.
Dec 9, 2001 · He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and hung a shingle outside his parents’ house on Avenue K—”Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center”— and started tutoring kids in the basement.
Sep 12, 2009 · After the sale of the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers to The Washington Post Company in December 1984, the Kaplans established the Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation to...
Sep 7, 2009 · So imagine their surprise when one day in the 1950s, a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school principal arrived at the headquarters of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, N.J., bearing the...
- Nicholas Lemann
1938 Start UP. Stanley Kaplan started tutoring students in the basement of his parents’ Brooklyn home. Many of his students were from immigrant families, eager to pursue higher education and achieve success in America.
Our story begins in Brooklyn in 1919, where Stanley H. Kaplan was born. A gifted student and natural-born teacher, Stanley started tutoring his peers as a young boy. From the beginning, he believed that with focused instruction and hard work, every student had the potential to learn and excel.
