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Not Your Grandpa’s GI Bill

What the newest generation of the GI Bill is doing to help student veterans

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He's a literal force to be reckoned with, a force that simultaneously maneuvers between talking to judges, corporate CEOs and his kids during his interview with Career College Central. And, he's a curly haired force that apparently loathes long pants.

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As the price of gas increases, enrollment in online classes around the country increases as well. Is this a cause-and-effect paradigm or just simply a coincidence?

From New Mexico to North Carolina and Pennsylvania to Florida, the summer sessions for online courses have increased dramatically from previous years. In the article $4-a-Gallon Gas Drives More Students to Online Courses by Jeffrey R. Young on The Chronicle of Higher Education's web site, some say this is likely due to the increase in gasoline, while others believe online education has been on the rise for the past few years (see Chart 1.1) and the increase in gas prices (see Chart 1.2) is just a coincidence.

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There's the popular image of a fortune-teller peering into a crystal ball to divine the future. That method might be as good as any in predicting what a President McCain or a President Obama might mean for career colleges.

In their published comments, neither candidate has mentioned career schools. Even the comments the candidates have made about education in general pale in comparison to those on Iraq, energy and the subprime mortgage crisis.

The dearth of commentary was summed up by the site FreeCollegeBlog.com way back in March, when Hillary Clinton was still in the running.

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California’s bill for regulating career colleges gets shot down, Governator-style

Flexing muscle is nothing new for Arnold Schwarzenegger
– not in films and not in the halls of
state government. Last month, California’s Governor
squashed what he and career college proponents
throughout the state thought to be an ineffectual
bill for regulating private postsecondary schools.

Schwarzenegger let an earlier version of the bill die
last summer without his signature and has criticized
the latest version as a big mess that missed its mark.