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Hoping to keep more of its students from dropping out, the Apollo Group, which operates the for-profit University of Phoenix, said Tuesday it would pay $75 million to buy Carnegie Learning, which offers computer- based math instruction.
Carnegie Learning, based in Pittsburgh, was founded in 1998 by scientists from Carnegie Mellon University who developed an approach to teaching math that combines classroom work with computer instruction. Its Cognitive Tutor software analyzes students’ weaknesses as they work through problems and offers new problems until they are ready to move on.
