), was owned by Kaplan, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company, and was a United States provider of customized supplementary education and one-on-three tutoring services for children in kindergarten through ninth grade.
had over 165 centers in twelve states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia, and also in the District of Columbia, and in Israel.
"[2] Positive reinforcement was a strong part of the corporate culture, as documented in Harvard Business School Case Studies in 1999 and 2000.
made available to individual consumers access to a large personalization software system that was originated by Stanford professors, Patrick Suppes and Richard C. Atkinson, and was previously only available to select schools and the Education Program for Gifted Youth.
In 1967 Computer Curriculum Corporation (CCC, now Pearson Education Technologies[4]) was formed to market to schools the materials developed through the IBM partnership.
[6] Based on computer-generated progress reports that CCC measured against national curriculum standards, typical students at SCORE!
who worked for six months, or forty computer-hours, increased the equivalent of approximately two years in a classroom in math or reading.
Educational Center in Palo Alto, California, in November 1992, and hired the company's first two Directors, Kai Drekmeier and Ingrid Stabb, who helped Tripp further develop the SCORE!
In the summer of 1993, Stabb opened the second center in Menlo Park, California, established profitability for the first time for the SCORE!
Drekmeier opened the third center in Los Altos, California, beginning a period of rapid growth for the company.
Glen Tripp soon joined the executive management team and helped lead the company to further successes and operational efficiencies.
Other professionals who played early leading roles in shaping the start-up company in 1993 and 1994 included (in alphabetical order) Ben Besley, James Cleveland, Gail Derecho, Allison Don, Sarah Hainstock, David Hannigan, Rich Kelley, Thomas Layton, Elizabeth Phythian, and Ann Smith.
With a chain of prime retail locations secured, the firm sought to increase revenue per center by investing in two new services: SCORE!
The same year, likely due to continued weak results in revenue,[1] Kaplan made the decision to close 75 Score!
At the end of March 2009, the Washington Post Company approved a plan to offer tutoring services, previously provided at Score, in Kaplan test prep centers.
Poor upper regional management and internal weak structures eventually led to a class action lawsuit for violating labor laws brought on by Score!