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Lost in Translation — $=$$=Zero — What Is the Contradiction? Money for Uneducation | Dissident Voice

Lost in Translation — $=$$=Zero — What Is the Contradiction? Money for Uneducation | Dissident Voice:


Lost in Translation — $=$$=Zero — What Is the Contradiction? Money for Uneducation

University of Phoenix Dumpster Diving for Dollars
“The education system that was created hundreds of years ago needs to change,” says Michael Clifford, a major education entrepreneur who speaks with FRONTLINE. Clifford, a former musician who never attended college, purchases struggling traditional colleges and turns them into for-profit companies. “The big opportunity,” he says, “is the inefficiencies of some of the state systems, and the ability to transform schools and academic programs to better meet the needs of the people that need jobs.”
Hundreds of years ago? Not the community college system, created fifty years ago. Yes, more community colleges, more community education, more schools to bring labor, blue, pink, brown, whatever, to the table of