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Fail State - documentary about Higher Education for-profit schools
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Just listened to the Fail State doc..

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64WANCgMek

I don't think there is anything new in it, but listening to those stories is disheartening. I would hope high school and the army would start educating their people about accreditation an the difference in the type of universities. A big part is predatory marketing, uninformed people trusting the system without looking at the numbers themselves.

Interesting to see again that for-profit universities pioneered a lot of online education but also kind of gave it a bad reputation that is just starting to fade away.

Can the US have a reputable for-profit system over the long term? I kind of doubt it, regulation can be cut and we get into the spiral of profits.
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Fail State - documentary about Higher Education for-profit schools - by posabsolute - 12-10-2018, 12:31 PM

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