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My piece wasn't about the profit motive, although I've edited an entire book on that called Private Enterprise and Public Education. And I do think profits can be a very useful thing in education when channeled toward the right end.... and thus, I am in agreement that colleges should be regulated on outcomes. That's the argument of the p…
My piece wasn't about the profit motive, although I've edited an entire book on that called Private Enterprise and Public Education. And I do think profits can be a very useful thing in education when channeled toward the right end.... and thus, I am in agreement that colleges should be regulated on outcomes. That's the argument of the piece. And as I've also written elsewhere, that ought to be around the very thing you just identified (e.g. getting hired and retained at something you want to do). I've given more tangible metrics of how that would get calculated but this is the argument of the piece.
Excellent. We agree on many things. "Overreach" by the government is not a place where we do. It may, in fact, add some cost, but I don't think it will discourage innovation— and it may discourage cronyism and graft, which is the aim. I'm for—as I'm sure you are—good use of my tax money. We may disagree on "good uses," but that's why our society is good—we can disagree in public. I don't see this as overreach, but the right does, and the right, in my lifetime, has always fought harder (and dirtier) for their POV. So who knows? I think our government (and we all) have to get better at clarifying common goals and working together towards them. :)