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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Schools Matter: How Are Online Learning and Online Dating Different?

Schools Matter: How Are Online Learning and Online Dating Different?:

How Are Online Learning and Online Dating Different?

Online dating can be fun, and it might lead to something.

Teachers and professors are the last obstacles standing in the way of a virulent corporate educational caste system based on shrinking public investment in education and a larger and more lucrative role by online diploma mills in the exploitation, containment, and marginalization of the non-privileged, whose shrinking hope for moving into the middle class depends upon acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills to compete for an evaporating pool of good jobs.

When Phillips Exeter and Harvard go online, that's when I'll become interested in distant learning.
From the NYTimes:
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