Knowledge Universe

Knowledge Universe was an American educational services company that was founded by Michael Milken and existed from 1996 to 2015. The stated goal of the company was to improve the formation of human capital through better education. Knowledge Universe comprised around fifty companies that it either acquired outright or owned a significant share of. The largest portion of Knowledge Universe was the Knowledge Learning Corporation, which included Children's Discovery Centers, Aramark Educational Resources and the Children's World Learning Centers, and the KinderCare Learning Centers. Other subsidiaries of Knowledge Universe included Bookman Testing Services, the CRT Group, LeapFrog, and Nextera Enterprises. Parts of Knowledge Universe were gradually sold off until in 2015 there was essentially none of it left.