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

The association for college admission counseling recently found a thirty-point increase with Kaplan and other programs.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

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

But Judge Kaplan said the government violated Mr.Ghailani's constitutional rights.

VOA: special.2010.11.20

Stanley Kaplan was an educator and private tutor.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

Jed Kaplan and Kristen Krumhardt did the research.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

Kaplan's agency is redoubling its efforts to identify obese women early in their pregnancies and to make sure their health care providers treat them as high-risk patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

Maternal mortality in America is particularly high in New York City, where extremes of wealth and poverty abound, says Deborah Kaplan, who oversees the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health for New York City's health department.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23