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For-profit education; potential martyr of higher ed reform?

Posted in Education policy, news on June 26, 2010 | Comments Off

One of the hottest topics in education right now is the issues around for-profit higher education providers.  (Think DeVry, ITT Technical Institute, Capella, University of Phoenix, Walden, etc,, but also your local beauty school, Le Courdon Bleu cooking schools and such.)  Working in the industry, this is a subject I’ve been following closely and have [...]

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Education, profit and hypocrisy

Posted in Academic life, Education policy, Politics, news on March 14, 2010 | Comments Off

UPDATE: While writing this was cathartic for me, a much better piece has been written that includes  my points and many more.  If this topic is of interest, I suggest you read it. Another article came out today about how for-profit colleges and trade schools (lumped into one big indistinguishable mass) are using deceptive practices [...]

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The Bill of Rights isn’t a Buffet: ACLU Hypocrisy

Posted in Politics, news on July 3, 2008 | Comments Off

My politics have a distinctly libertarian bent.  (In a college of education this makes me about as popular as a colonoscopy.)  But more important than my political bent is that I believe in intellectual consistency.  In general, even when I abhor some of the specifics of the ACLU’s positions (they’ve supported the KKK, NAMBLA, etc) [...]

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NCLB vs local control of education

Posted in Education policy, news on December 9, 2007 | Comments Off

George Will wrote an excellent op-ed today regarding No Child Left Behind (NCL.  I’m sure there are people at the Fordham Foundation ranting in the halls about his use of their Proficiency Illusion paper to bolster an argument about getting the federal government OUT of education (as opposed to their preferred solution of national standards).  [...]

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Apparently atheists aren’t American

Posted in Religion, news on December 7, 2007 | Comments Off

“Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government.” Mitt Romney, 12/6/2007 Does this mean I get to stop paying taxes?  Since my citizenship has just been revoked…. “Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me.” [...]

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Things that are making me cranky today….

Posted in Jobs, Politics, Religion, Whining, news on December 7, 2007 | Comments Off

There are a great number of things making me cranky today.  Here’s a summary: Mitt Romney’s speech and the religious pandering of all the candidates.  (I love this summary, and hate what it means for the country.) The imminent mortgage bail-out for those who overextended themselves, but only the ones that timed it right (so [...]

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Yet another reason we have nothing in common with the Saudi’s

Posted in Outrage, news on November 16, 2007 | Comments Off

A 19 year old Saudi woman who was raped 14 times by 7 men has been sentenced to 200 lashes and 6 months in jail.  This is infuriating for 2 reasons. Since when is being gang raped not sufficient punishment for any offense?  They charged her for being in the car with a strange man, [...]

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