The Knewton Blog

I’ve been writing more on the Huffington Post recently, and my latest piece is a history of the standardized test prep industry. What started with one man became a massive, international business, and my experience in that business is what motivated me to found Knewton. Here’s the full story: The test prep industry began in Stanley Kaplan’s Brooklyn basement just after World War II. The son of Jewish immigrants, Stanley believed standardized tests were some… Read more

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I was very saddened to hear the news of Stanley Kaplan’s passing today. I met Stanley not long after I started working for Kaplan, in 1991. It is fair to say that Stanley Kaplan is a big reason why promising students from all backgrounds have a shot at admission to top colleges and grad schools. This is both because Stanley invented the test preparation industry (in his basement!) and because he was ever afterward a… Read more

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