Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Stanley Kaplan dies at 90

R.I.P. Stanley Kaplan, the father of modern test preparation.

From the LA Times:

"Stanley H. Kaplan, the founder and namesake of the nation's first test-preparation company, died of heart failure Sunday at his home in New York City. He was 90.

Kaplan started a tutoring company in his parents' Brooklyn home in 1938. In 1946, a student asked him to help her prepare for what was then called the Scholastic Aptitude Test. " (read full obituary here)

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