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The Private Sector Expects Results!

Here is a great piece on education by Libertarian John Stossel.  My favorite part was a clip from the movie Ghost Busters where Dan Akroyd is explaining to Bill Murray why he is crazy to seek a life...

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A Great Spoof!

OK - I know this is a spoof, but the strange thing is that it is very close to reality today."Saying that his great grandparents could have never even dreamed of squandering such a fortune, recent...

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Beware of Propaganda about College like this Pew Study

These social “scientists’ spread this propaganda and consistently mix up causation with correlation.Here would be a way to actually test the Pew’s hypothesis that college education results in...

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If you are lucky!

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Drunken Party at UMass Results in Injuries

"Police arrested 73 people at a University of Massachusetts at Amherst Pre-St Patrick's Day party in which unruly students threw beer cans, bottles and snowballs at authorities, leaving four officers...

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What is she trying to achieve?

On the Bloomberg Charlie Rose Show March 28, 2014:As Charlie Rose introduces Drew Faust, President of Harvard, he says: “In her installation address, she said: ‘A university is not about results in the...

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Why have we combined minor league football with a college education?

With all the talk about unionizing college athletes last week, I question why we ever combined sports and education in college.  I am not talking about intramural sports nor club sports where the...

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We are not against college

Here is what we have been saying for years: “We are not against college but question many of the long held assumptions about it. We think too many attend, too much is spent on it and that students are...

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Using equity to fund college instead of loans.

Interesting article about the antiquated system we have for funding college today.At least with the federal home loan programs, the system attempts to qualify their borrowers, such that a borrower has...

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Which Class Do I Take?

How about this for a college decision process?  Study the harder subject. You can take a class in Gender Studies where the prof awards 90% A’s or a class in Advanced Engineering Mathematics where only...

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Being lucky enough to be born smart might be more important than if you...

This is about the 1000th article I have seen that mixes up correlation with cause and effect as it relates to the value of college.They never try to compare comparable subsets (with IQs that are...

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When it comes to college, why don’t we separate granting credentials from...

Today college serves at least four different purposes:      Purpose #1) It provides some information to a prospective employer about the minimum IQ of a possible hire (it tells you little about their...

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The Definition of College According to the Urban Dictionary

The Urban Dictionary is one of my favorite "research" tools these days.  If you want the real meaning of a word or the story behind the story, this is a great place to start.Here are a few of my...

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How do we measure how well our colleges are doing?

Business as usual. This writer misses a critical point.  The education factories (aka colleges and universities) take in a student and then produce a graduate (with the exception of those that drop...

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Did these college basketball stars only attend classes in their first semester?

"In the latest example of his longstanding distaste for Kentucky basketball, Hall of Fame coach Bob Knight said last weekend that UK'sfive starters in the 2010 NCAA Tournament did not attend class that...

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Nothing is too good for your daughter in college?

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Study Finds that College is Still More Fun that Spending Four Years Chained...

Great fun at the Onion and this startling discovery! Make sure and download a copy of Lucky and Good: Risk, Decisions and Bets forInvestors, Traders and Entrepreneurs. 

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What you study matters in the job market.

Here is some data concerning Bachelor's Degrees conferred in the U.S. in 2012.* The interesting part of the data is that it is divided by sex. The majority of degrees awarded were in business, about...

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Self-education

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker

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College debt can interfere with being an entrepeneur!

Any prospective or active entrepreneur should be reading Kevin Johnson's book: The Entrepreneurial Mind Here is a reminder from Kevin Johnson about the dangers of debt.  If you have any desire to start...

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David Letterman says "Send your kid to college."

"If you can, send your kid to college. So they get a degree, and at least then, they will know what kind of work they're out of." David Letterman on his monologue August 22, 2014Make sure and download...

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A College Degree and the Law of Supply and Demand

I don’t know how many times I have seen the statistic that a college education results in career earnings of more than $one million over the individual’s lifetime.  Well I call BS on this number every...

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Common sense about college from Robert Reich

Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of  Labor, has some common sense about our investment in four year liberal arts educations versus two year technical programs in this editorial.Here are some of...

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Another angle on the collateral damage of college finance

We recently posted an article about how college debt is an inhibitor to graduates starting businesses.  College grads with big debt payments have fewer options as a result of the minimum college loan...

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An interesting new college model - Minerva

Excellent article about a new innovative college – Minerva (named after the Roman goddess of wisdom).  Minerva does not see itself competing with the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) like Coursera...

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