For-profit education / Mitchell Young, book editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Young, Mitchell.

Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

Series:

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Opposing viewpoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

For-profit universities and colleges--United States.

For-profit universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Economic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Greenhaven Press, [2012]

Summary:

This volume explores the topics relating to for-profit education by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.

Contents:

Does for-profit education meet the needs of school children? For-profit and privately managed schools benefit children in low-performing districts / Lisa Snell

For-profit education profits big business, not students / Stephen L. Lendman

Politics plays a role in evaluating the results of for-profit schools / Keith B. Richburg

For-profit alternative schools take advantage of failing students / Joel Rubin ; Nancy Cleeland

Buyers of educational services must be wary if children and taxpayers are to benefit / Chester E. Finn Jr. ; Frederick M. Hess

Does for-profit education meet the needs of college students? For-profit colleges serve non-traditional students well / Michael Seiden

For-profit colleges recruit students who are unprepared for college / Joshua Woods

For-profit education provides practical and convenient instruction / Hans Schatz

Recruiters for for-profit institutions mislead potential students / Gregory Kutz

Federal regulations will increase oversight of student debt at for-profit colleges / Katherine Mangu-Ward

Threat of regulation has led for-profit colleges to reform themselves / The Economist

Is for-profit education a viable business model? Making a profit from schools requires careful management of costs / Steven F. Wilson

Profit-seeking educational institutions use dollars efficiently / Neal McCluskey

Nonprofit charter schools hide for-profit real estate deals / Jennie Smith

The for-profit business model dominates discourse about education / Thomas Nelson ; Bruce A. Jones

Public schools rely increasingly on private contractors / Patricia Burch

What is the future role of for-profit education in the United States? Fully funded school choice will give a role to for-profit education / Scott Franklin Abernathy

The government seeks to suppress for-profit higher education / Brian Darling

Voucher programs are key to improving public schools / Greg Forster

Voucher programs lead to government interference in private schools / Gregory Rome ; Walter Block

Entrepreneurs are selling e-learning to traditional public schools / Constance Gustke

The partisan debate over privatization of education will continue / Jeffrey R. Henig.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Frances Baylinson Rosenbluth Fund.

ISBN:

0737758376

9780737758368

0737758368

9780737758375

OCLC:

707965518

Publisher Number:

99946104779