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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

Edsurge

And here’s the most surprising part: that online school it bought, Kaplan University, was a for-profit business—part of a sector that’s been criticized for high costs and poor outcomes for students. It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name.

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OPINION: Why Americans should not blame their local college or university for the shortfalls of the elite

The Hechinger Report

For example, a baby born to a family in the top 0.1 with highly selective admissions and academic standards, are failing to enroll the best and brightest students from poor and middle-class families. percent of income in the U.S. has about a 40 percent chance of going to an Ivy League or other elite college.

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