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    Jenloveshercurves: As someone who works in higher education and spent too many years and tens of thousands of dollars on a Master's degree in the subject, I feel compell... more »
    Piranha426: The root of the problem is far beyond college. Within our current K-12 educational structure, we do a TERRIBLE job preparing students for anything oth... more »
    Dancingfrog: The worst form of alternate education is the impersonal computer method that focuses on computerized exams. It's just totally unrealistic and misses t... more »
    Devonna: Great post, and timely! I've fallen out of love with my current employer and the only thing keeping me in the shit show that is my job is that I don'... more »
    morninggloria: Does computer college have a digital kegstand function that leads to a few hours of computer blackout and potentially embarrassing cybersex? Does you... more »
    clevernamehere: Since a lot of the complaining about traditional college seems to be coming from newer grads, I have a little advice for people just starting their co... more »
    Trulymadlyme: College taught me how to make my way through a nonsensical, endlessly infuriating bureaucratic system. It actually served me shockingly well. more »
    CrabbyPants: I think that this is a great solution for people who are going to college only for job skills and want it to be an investment that will pay off eventu... more »
    ShinyMcShine: One problem is that universities are important sites of research. These ventures, with no faculty or volunteer faculty, will presumably not be support... more »
    eri401: Hm. I am wary that Un-schooling guides (often wise, useful, etc) might become easy, misappropriated manifestos to front the culture of anti-intellec... more »
    Lizard in the Wires - Please, call it hamburger time.: I graduated last May and my SUNY was "cheap" as schools go and I'm "only" $30,000 in debt. But I was a film major, so I did actually learn skills th... more »
    SisterRay73: Now that I'm entering my final year of undergraduate education at a prestigious university, I'm starting to see this all as the scam it really is. Whi... more »
    la.donna.pietra: Before anyone gets too excited about a new and innovative approach to higher education, bear my experience in mind: I went to UC Santa Cruz from 1994... more »
    thatgirlinnewyork: the status quo will wave this off as counterculture nonsense, but after more than a decade working with new grads from many revered institutions of le... more »
    keldo: I hear you, LaToya. Before I finished my degree I left to work fulltime. I took over and succeeded at a difficult job in a company that, when it cam... more »
  • #schooldaze

    Are Edupunks The Cure To The College Cost Crisis?

    "'Edupunk,' [Jim Groom] tells me in the opening notes of his first email, 'is about the utter irresponsibility and lethargy of educational institutions and the means by which they are financially cannibalizing their own mission.'" More »
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    Girl Talk