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Forget credentials & credit hours: Learn anything from anybody

April 29, 2011 Gloria Shur Bilchik Education, Employment, Ideas Leave a comment

A new online business, called SkillShare, wants us get over the idea that a college education is the only legitimate path to a career.

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Higher education for sale

December 3, 2010 Madonna Gauding Education, Literature/Arts/Film Leave a comment

One of the most interesting revelations of Charles Ferguson’s movie Inside Job was his exposure of the ways in which academic economists contributed to

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