Thirty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission found that Stanley Kaplan's program could raise SAT scoresbut only by about twenty-five points.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Other education stories this past year included the deaths of college test preparation pioneer Stanley Kaplan and music educator Bess Lomax Hawes.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

Who was Stanley Kaplan? Did he A) start a test preparation company, B) start the test preparation industry, or C) die last month at age ninety?

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Online education is the latest leap for the company, which was founded in 1938 when Stanley Kaplan began tutoring students in his Brooklyn basement.

CNN: Kaplan is starting an online college -- minus the keggers