Content tagged: privatization
Evidence on the quality of for-profit higher education?
A confluence of forces: a letter requesting my participation in doctoral dissertation research from a student at the University of Phoenix and an increase in for-profit ads endorsed by the Chronicle of Higher Education in my inbox. While we all make mistakes, the attached letter...
Teachers have a right to unionize
The recipe is as follows: use “research” and phony evaluation systems to create a wedge between teachers and the public. Then, legally dismantle...
Inside Higher Ed: For-Profit Colleges Open Another Front
The January 24, 2011 edition of Inside Higher Ed reported that after months of fighting the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the for-profit sector, on Friday, “The Association of Private Sector Colleges...
Broad Foundation: Facts on the Wrecking of Public Education
The Perimeter Primate has posted two pieces on what it deems “the Broad Effect” — what is more aptly described as the wrecking of public education. The first installment begins: The Broad Effect” is behind the recent events in Rhode Island...
Hess on Federal Jargon & the Jargon of Venture Capitalism and Wall Street Dictate
Much is now being made of the finalists for the first round of Race to the Top funds. To his credit, AEI’s Fred Hess has apparently started to review the substance of the applications. But his posting does not portend a substantive...
Thousand Demonstrate Against California Education Cuts
From: substancenews.net: Jack Gerson and other reporters (as indicated) – September 25, 2009 Well over 5,000 students, staff and faculty packed the University of California Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on September 24, 2009, to protest sweeping layoffs, deep cuts...
Privatization of Public Higher Education Will Not Solve Any Problem!
In the May 1 issue of the Chronicle of Education, an article appeared with the headline: “Public Colleges Consider Privatization as a Cure for the Common Recession.” The article was written by Eric Kelderman (for those with access the article can be found here)....
"The Political Economy of Educational Restructuring: On the Origin of Performance Pay and Obama’s “Blueprint” for Education," in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education Can Hope Audaciously Trump Neoliberalism? (Information Age Publishing)
