And the Sylvan Learning Center, another private program which has contracts in Washington D.
But Sylvan is also venturing into what could become its biggest market by far: public education.
Sylvan Learning Systems, a Baltimore-based company founded by two university drop-outs, is the market leader.
He worked directly for Sylvan Coleman, chairman of the board and a very tough and demanding cookie.
And, admittedly, the visitors were helped by one glaring second-half miss from former Argyle striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
Similarly, the Edison Project and Sylvan Learning Center will lose their contracts if their students do not learn.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake added a second just before the break and was involved in the third on 56 minutes.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake twice sent a shot narrowly wide but Wolves had done enough to move out of the bottom three.
But Kevin Doyle and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake missed good chances with headers from corners, while Christophe Berra misdirected his header from a free-kick.
Michael Kightly, Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Richard Stearman are part of the England Under-21 squad to take on the Czech Republic at Bramall Lane.
Fittingly the winning goal was bagged by striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, the club's top scorer this season, who claimed his 25th goal of the campaign.
Sylvan has won contracts to provide remedial teaching for disadvantaged children in 17 states, including 13 schools in Baltimore and 33 in Los Angeles.
The introduction of Sylvan Ebanks-Blake and Kightly at half-time breathed new life into the home side as rain began to fall in the Black Country.
And in Sol Campbell and Sylvan Distin, they were coming up against a resolute backline which was amply protected Diop, Sean Davis and Sulley Muntari.
Knowledge Universe is following Sylvan by advancing on a broad front.
Until then, a reliable foliage forecast is that researchers will spend their time seeing red, while everybody else simply enjoys the technicolor, sylvan swansong of the autumn.
At the other end Doyle saw a header clawed off the line by Schwarzer and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake rifled into the side-netting in a richly entertaining second half.
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake had a shot saved by the legs of Thomas Sorenson and Fletcher was then denied by some desperate defending having danced his way around two tackles.
The winger was unmarked at the far post but slipped and sliced his shot wide after Keogh's shot deflected into his path off former Argyle striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
No one's keeping track of how many billions of dollars these mother hens have raised, but the swelling brood includes Andersen Consulting, Monsanto, Panasonic, NASA and Sylvan Learning Systems.
And Martinez believes Scotland, whose 16 league goals see him behind Wolves' Sylvan Ebanks Blake and Reading's Kevin Doyle in the Championship goal charts, can still play in the top-flight.
"This is a reward to Sylvan for this outstanding goalscoring for the last two years, " Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey told the club's website when the deal was agreed in June.
We are time-shifted back to Keynes's Cambridge of the 1930s and fast-forwarded to the Sylvan Testing Centre in Johannesburg, where students are tested by a Baltimore-based company for South African university entrance.
McCarthy made a change at half-time, throwing on Sylvan Ebanks-Blake to join Doyle up front and the duo almost combined for a goal as Doyle's low cross flashed just beyond the reach of his strike partner.
This tale of two camps scholarly guys and demure dolls meeting in a sylvan setting has been shifted to the nineteen-thirties, where a young king (Alessandro Nivola) goes clubbing with his flannel-suited friends (one of them played by Branagh himself) in order to enjoy a little peace before the onset of war.
The home side adopted a route one approach when Marcus Hahnemann's long kick was flicked on by Kevin Doyle and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake wriggled clear of the commanding Zat Knight, but he tried to punch the ball into the net, only to see his effort rebound off a post and he was lucky to escape punishment from referee Peter Walton.
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