Dearborn, a Kaplan Professional Company, Launches Online Courses for Series Exams

Series 63 Avaliable now, Series 6 and 7 this Summer

CHICAGO, IL, April 26, 2000 -- Dearborn, a Kaplan Professional Company, has launched a new product line of online pre-licensing courses for financial services professionals. The first offering, available now, is the Series 63 Online Complete Course, which takes Dearborn's quality content, already in use nationwide in classrooms, software, and books, and uses Kaplan's distance learning technology and expertise to deliver it online in an easy-to-use format. Dearborn will launch online courses for the Series 6 and 7 exams this summer. Over the past few years, Kaplan Professional, a division of Kaplan, Inc., has emerged as a leader in providing education and training to financial services professionals.
 
Dearborn's Series 63 Online Complete Course includes lessons, quizzes, and practice finals, all outlined in the same way that the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has outlined the material for the exam. Interactive texts and links include reading material, graphics, audio help buttons, chatrooms, and access to Dearborn's curriculum experts.
 
"As the newest addition to a suite of blended learning solutions, this exciting new course will help our customers cost effectively implement and manage a high quality, nationwide training program," said Don DeMark, Dearborn's General Manager. "The many interactive, visually appealing features of the course will actively engage students in the learning experience, helping them to increase retention and comprehension, and helping them to pass the Series exam."
 
"Using Kaplan's proven distance learning technology as the foundation for these new courses enables Dearborn to offer seamless web delivered learning and compliance management solutions," explained Patti O'Shea, Dearborn's Senior Vice President of Technology.
 
Eric Nelson, Training & OD Specialist at E*TRADE, said, "New associates at E*TRADE have been using Dearborn's Series 63 Online Complete Course and everyone who used it thought it was great. The blended style of learning works best for our associates, and the online format is most suitable to an e-company such as ours. When Dearborn's Series 63 online course became available, we knew we wanted to give it a try, since we have had a long relationship with Dearborn that has proven very beneficial to us, and we wanted to stay with a proven performer. We're looking forward to using Series 7 this summer." The Series 63 exam, administered by the NASD, covers state laws and regulations as well as registration requirements for broker-dealers, agents, and investment advisers, and the license is required in most states.
 
Dearborn (www.dearborn.com) is a leading provider of prelicensing and continuing education training and certification for securities, insurance and financial services professionals, and offers online courses, interactive CD-ROMs, and print materials, as well as classroom instruction in more than 120 locations in the U.S. and abroad. Dearborn also supplies education courseware to independent schools, colleges, and corporations. In addition, corporate compliance departments can use Dearborn's Career Tracker, a proprietary information management system, to manage and track their employees' educational requirements. Kaplan Professional (www.kaplanprofessional.com) is a unit of Kaplan, Inc. that provides licensing and continuing education training, certification, and professional development courses for securities, insurance, financial services, legal, IT, and real estate professionals and corporations. Kaplan, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO).

Press Contact: pubrel@kaplan.com, (212) 492-5965

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