On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > raghu quoted: >> In the past 10 years, the for-profit education industry has grown 5-10 >> times the historical rate of traditional post secondary education. ... >> >> How has this been allowed to happen? >> >> The simple answer is that they’ve hired every lobbyist in Washington >> D.C. There has been a revolving door between the people who work or >> lobby for this industry and the halls of government. ... > > it's also because people like Arne Duncan and Barack Obama believe > that market- and market-like education is better. The free market > ideology still rules.
I was under the impression that Duncan's damage has so far been limited to the K-12 education sector, but a quick search shows up this: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-education-secretary-arne-duncan-keynotes-devry-policy-forum-2010-05-11 ------------------------------snip Duncan said the programs and physical capacity of private-sector higher education institutions are also vital to helping achieve the President's goal. "Let me be crystal clear: for-profit institutions play a vital role in training young people and adults for jobs. They are critical to helping America meet the President's 2020 goal. They are helping us meet the explosive demand for skills that public institutions cannot always meet." It is sad that a hedge fund manager is actually more progressive than the Secretary of Education. Really depressingly sad. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
