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• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Much Ado About Very Little   2 days, 18 hours ago
  

  One of the main reasons I decided to pursue a career in journalism was to try, perhaps in vain, to correct something I often see in the media, which is the easy acceptance of narratives pushed by one group or another in service of advancing their agenda. I understand the appeal if you’re a reporter. [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Are For-Profit Colleges a Good Return on Investment?   4 days, 21 hours ago
  

  The New York Times ran an interesting piece last week about the rise of for-profit colleges and the surging enrollment numbers they’re seeing during the recession. In New York state, there’s been a 61 percent increase in the number of students attending for profit schools over the last decade (compared to a 15 percent increase [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: Joseph Lieberman (Fredo-CT)   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  I wonder what Barack Obama thinks about when he hears the name Joe Lieberman. I wonder if it makes him angry. I wonder if it makes him feel like a dupe. I wonder if he feels betrayed.

  I wonder about these things because Lieberman, who was just a controversial Supreme Court decision away from being Vice [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: City Partnerships Are Boosting the Profile of Community Colleges   1 week, 4 days ago
  

  A central mission of America’s community colleges involves job training. Two-year institutions have long been seen as places where mid-career workers could update their skills or high school graduates could get training that would lead to solid paying, blue collar job. President Obama lent credence to this notion over the summer when he emphasized the [...]

• michael.preston wrote a new blog post: What’s Going on with the Public Option?   1 week, 5 days ago
  

  Even if you’ve obsessively followed the myriad twists and turns of the health care reform debate, the current drama surrounding the fate of the public option seems like something out of a Dan Brown page-turner: threats, back room meetings, questionable motives and misinformation cloud the picture.

  As a new week starts, though,  it does appear that [...]

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