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NEW REPUBLIC: Silicon Valley’s “Thunder Lizards” Want to “Hack” America’s Broken Universities

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On college campuses across America this spring chipper tour guides will bustle high-school seniors and their parents around all the big sites: the dorms, high-tech classrooms, vast libraries, and the flashy new rec centers, with their now-standard lazy rivers and flat-screen TVs. This is closing season, when colleges try to turn “accepted” …

Uncle Sam Is Common Culprit In Both Housing Crisis And For-Profit College Debacle

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The fundamental restructuring of this once-promising sector of the education market is in full swing. It’s been helped along by the Obama administration’s aggressive investigation of questionable lending and marketing practices at for-profit colleges, who depend heavily on the US government’s generous Title IV loan and grant money.

At the heart of the …

Nevada AG Targets For-Profit Colleges

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(LAS VEGAS KXNT)–The Nevada Attorney General has joined 13 other state AG’s in supporting a proposed bill in Congress targeting the marketing and recruitment practices of for-profit colleges and universities.

The schools have been under fire for years from disgruntled students who say they have been mislead through school advertising and recruitment campaigns that inflate the …