Education

David Gelernter on Education

December 9, 2009

We saw professor David Gelernter at the December 2009 Gilder Telecosm and he made some profound points about the structural dysfunction of the higher educational system. We summarize them here and I’m sure this topic will be a recurring theme over the next decade (or two.) Education is a famously slow-to-evolve institution and most have resisted [...]

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No Safe Landing for Apollo

April 14, 2009

Apollo Group (APOL – $60), parent company of the University of Phoenix (UoP), has never been one to welcome scrutiny and this time the intensity and impact may be greater than ever.  The new administration is smarter and the US Department of Education (DOE) is more aggressive about allocating the billions of taxpayer dollars to [...]

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