Stanley Kaplan去世
Stanley Kaplan，著名的Kaplan集团的创始人，星期天在纽约去世，享年90岁。他是著名教育的教育家，也是SAT培训专家，俞敏洪创立新东方的坎坷经历，和他相比起来显得平淡无奇。Kaplan是在上世纪三年个年代，在纽约的布鲁克林地区的一个地下室中，开始了他的教学，历经几十年，Kaplan集团发展成为一个全球领先的教育培训集团，其中广为人知的是各种标准化考试的培训。他和SAT的考试组织方College Board有一段争议，后者认为SAT考试是如此高深神秘， 是不能通过培训来提高分数的。Kaplan在1979年接受纽约时报采访的时候认为：“说成绩不能（通过培训）提高，就如同说学生无法提高，而我完全不同意。”
Stanley H. Kaplan, a businessman and teacher who carved out a lucrative niche in the world of for-profit education and made test-preparation classes a rite of passage for students across America, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 90 and had homes in Manhattan and Boca Raton, Fla.
The Stanley H. Kaplan Foundation and Kaplan Inc., his education company, announced his death Monday, saying the cause was heart failure.
Propelled by his students’ success on the SAT and other standardized exams — and by the enormous growth in standardized testing — Mr. Kaplan transformed the Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center from a tiny tutoring operation in his basement in Brooklyn in the late 1930s into a nationwide test-preparation company.
via Stanley Kaplan, Pioneer in Preparing Students for Exams, Dies at 90 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com.
相关的文章：