Against ‘Gainful Employment’
Last month, a unanimous Appeals Court ruling strongly affirmed the federal government’s ‘gainful employment’ regulation which requires “career colleges” (including for-profit schools and certificate...
View ArticleCUNY On The Brink
Today the New York Times published a startling (if you haven’t been inside a CUNY campus lately) exposé on the shameful financial state of the City University of New York. Reporter David Chen describes...
View ArticleObama’s Missed Chance to Help For-Profit College Students
Student debt, which now totals more than $1.3 trillion, is a debilitating hardship for millions of students and families. While presidential candidates will surely debate the issue all summer long,...
View ArticleTrump’s Corporate Coup d’État and the Elimination of Human Teachers
Many educators, students, and policymakers are trying to figure out what a Trump Presidency means for public education. In this post, I’d like to propose one answer: a Trump administration means the...
View ArticleInto the Weeds
Since Trump won the Presidency, there have been many attempts to characterize the failures of liberalism. Thomas Frank wrote that the Democratic party itself is the “expression of an enlightened...
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