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.
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3 comments:

  1. Bartender Cabbie12/10/2011 9:37 AM

    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."

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  2. Comrade Misfit12/10/2011 4:49 PM

    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.

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  3. Stewart Dean12/11/2011 6:23 AM

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

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