And the Sylvan Learning Center, another private program which has contracts in Washington D.

CNN: Competition, Not Standards

Sylvan Learning Systems, a Baltimore-based company founded by two university drop-outs, is the market leader.

ECONOMIST: Reading, writing and enrichment

Similarly, the Edison Project and Sylvan Learning Center will lose their contracts if their students do not learn.

CNN: Competition, Not Standards

No one's keeping track of how many billions of dollars these mother hens have raised, but the swelling brood includes Andersen Consulting, Monsanto, Panasonic, NASA and Sylvan Learning Systems.

FORBES: Mad Hatchery Syndrome