Early Life and Education
Kaplan was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents from the present-day countries of Latvia and Belarus. He grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. He was the son of a plumbing contractor.
He entered City College of New York at the age of 16 and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and second in his class in 1939. He received his M.S.E. (Master of Science in Education) from City College in 1941.
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