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Blog Entries by Joel Shatzky from 09/2010

Must Everybody Have a College Degree to Get a Decent Job?

| Posted 09.16.2010 | College
Read More: Gao Report, For-Profit Education, WNYC Public Radio, For-Profit Colleges, College News

The explosion in student college attendance, increasing by almost 50% from 13 to 19 million in the last twenty years is due in part to the "for-profit" institutions that have been springing up around the country.

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Educating for Democracy: Book Burning and "Wagging the Dog"

| Posted 09.24.2010 | Media
Read More: Wag the Dog, College Costs, Reverend Terry Jones, Quran Burning, Terry Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Homelessness, Robert Gates, Media Criticism, Media, General Petraeus, Scandal, Burn a Quran Day, Robert DeNiro, Media News

This was the kind of story that, in saner times, would be relegated to a four-line item at the back of the local paper along with the reported rescue of a treed cat or a description of a Sunday school picnic.

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Educating for Democracy: Playing the Numbers Game with the Dept. of Ed

| Posted 09.29.2010 | New York
Read More: Chancellor Klein, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Standardized Testing, Public School Testing, Nyc Public Schools, Nyc, New York News

The "test data" used to evaluate student progress acts as if children's learning could be measured the same way that sales of auto parts or purchases of cappuccino at Starbucks are calibrated.

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