Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, December 10, 2011

With a Jaundiced Eye

If there was ever a reason to put zero trust in whatever the Washington Post has to say about education, this graphic from the NY Times is it.

Kaplan "University", one of the country's "for profit" colleges, is the cash cow for the WaPo. Like all for-profit colleges, its student take on massive debt loads and the vast majority do not graduate.

Here's an example: Last month, the GAO released a study reporting the abysmal academic standards at for-profit schools. The WaPo noted it on one of their blogs, thus ensuring that maybe a few thousand people saw the story. Some other papers and magazines did take not of it in print, jut not the WaPo.

It all goes back to the primary rule: Money talks.

3 comments:

Bartender Cabbie said...

I have taken courses at major univ. and small colleges. Aso at a "for profit." It was the best of the bunch. Real world instructors instead of some twit that never left "education."

Comrade Misfit said...

Kaplan U. has a 6-year graduation rate of 33%. A decent non-profit school will have a 4year graduation rate of double that and a 6-year rate of 80% or higher.

Stewart Dean said...

Or then there's the Golden Rule: Them that have the gold, make the rules.