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...Wage Campaign has initiated a critical process of reassessing the way Harvard's decisions are made, especially when community-wide values are at stake. Such a process, built on the foundation of a living wage policy, is Harvard's best hope of avoiding the empty ostentation, ridiculous disparity and for-profit corporate mentality that threatens to consume the other purposes to which it is charged, like the advancement of the democratic ideal and the construction of a moral community. It is to these later objectives that the Living Wage Campaign commits itself this afternoon at the rally in Harvard Yard...
...Jones International University, whose Colorado-based operation offers online courses to 500 students in 30 countries. Traditional campuses are also getting wired. Stanford offers a virtual master's degree; the University of Chicago and Columbia, among others, have signed up with the Internet start-up UNext.com to create a for-profit online college. Saylor's announcement ups the ante considerably. He is banking on replacing the world's "10,000 average professors" with an all-star faculty (think Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger), all of whom he expects to teach pro bono...
...enterprise had no place at Harvard, multi-million dollar Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) would have been out of business a long time ago. HSA (and its for-profit subsidiary Let's Go) enjoys University support, wiring, direction and affiliation--and no one complains. What is so different about a technology center...
Whittle has been criticized as a sort of Music Man of Education Inc. Previously, he started an advertiser-sponsored classroom TV news program, Channel One, which was castigated for its mercenary approach. Whittle sold Channel One to Primedia in 1994. The for-profit school idea is less corporately tainted--it's not brought to you by Coke...
...well does it all work when it comes to learning? While the grades aren't in on the long-term impact of for-profit schooling, early marks have been encouraging. Whittle says Edison students have raised their performance on standardized tests an average of 5 percentage points a year--a hefty gain at a time when many districts report little improvement. But not all Edison schools can show performance superior to public schools. Says Whittle: "We either make it or don't make it on the basis of test scores...