Stanley Kaplan tells the remarkable story of how he transformed a basement tutoring center into an educational institution that forever changed the way students learn.
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Stanley H. Kaplan - Test Pilot,
By Lewis B. Frumkes (New york, N.Y. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stanley H. Kaplan: Test Pilot: How I broke testing barriers for millions of students and caused a sonic boom in the business of education (Hardcover)
The only thing wrong with this passionate memoir by test-pioneer Stanley H. Kaplan, is the title. It sounds like it's a book about an air-force test pilot. In fact the feisty and fascinating teacher, and author of the eponymous memoir is an academic Horatio Alger, someone who developed his obsessive need to help others learn into a billion-dollar empire with global reach. Is there anyone who has not heard of Kaplan Centers, Kaplan S.A.T? Stanley H Kaplan was just a bit brighter than everyone else in Brooklyn seventy years ago when he began tutoring students in his basement. In his eighties today, and feisty as ever, he will stop on a dime to answer the questions of any kid on the street who is having difficulty with an algebra problem. If you want to be entertained, inspired, amused, and impressed by a master teacher and raconteur, a genuine original who tells your the real skinny about how he beat the odds and conquered the world, "Stanley H. Kaplan - Test Pilot" is the book for you.
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People are often surprised to hear that, unlike General Mills' mythical Betty Crocker, there really is a Stanley H. Kaplan behind Kaplan, Inc. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
test preparation industry, test preparation business, national medical boards, tutoring business, test makers, coaching schools, center administrators, score improvements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
College Board, New York, The Princeton Review, Stanley Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, City College, Kaplan Educational Center, Scholastic Aptitude Test, Katharine Graham, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Bedford Avenue, Great Neck, Kings Highway, Ralph Nader, Boston University, Coney Island, East Seventeenth Street, Fred Danzig, James Madison High School, Peg Prest, Ruth Drucker, University of California, World War New!
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