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In 2003, Sylvan Learning was purchased by Apollo Management from Sylvan Learning Systems Inc., its parent company. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] (Sylvan Learning Systems Inc. shifted focus to post-secondary education , and to reflect that change was renamed Laureate Education in 2004.) [ 3 ] In 2016, John McAuliffe was named as Chief Executive Officer.
As the first electronic educational toy, [6] [7] the Little Professor is a common item on calculator collectors' lists. [8] In 1976, the Little Professor cost less than $20. More than 1 million units sold in 1977. [9]
Prometric's computerized testing centers were founded by Drake International in 1990 under the name Drake Prometric. [1] In 1995, Drake Prometric L.P. was sold to Sylvan Learning in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $44.5 million. [2]
Laureate Education was originally created by Douglas Becker in 1998, as Sylvan International Universities, an operational division of Sylvan Learning Systems that would focus on post-secondary institutions. At the time, Sylvan was primarily focused on services for students in primary and secondary education through company owned and franchise ...
KinderCare Learning Centers, LLC [2] is an American operator of for-profit child care and early childhood education [3] facilities founded in 1969 and currently owned by KinderCare Education based in Portland, Oregon. [4] [5] The company provides educational programs for children from six weeks to 12 years old.
The cost matrix is a crucial element within cost-sensitive modeling, [2] explicitly defining the costs or benefits associated with different prediction errors in classification tasks. Represented as a table, the matrix aligns true and predicted classes, assigning a cost value to each combination.
After completing the program, students are assigned a position outside of their home or school states, and are typically responsible for housing costs of about $50/week, usually living with a host family. [10] Sales areas are predominantly suburban or rural. [11]
Shopping cart theft can be a costly problem with stores that use them. The carts, which typically cost between $75 and $150 each, with some models costing $300–400, are removed by people for various purposes. To prevent theft, estimated at $800 million worldwide per annum, stores use various security systems as discussed below. [37]