People are skeptical of for-profit schools for good reason: it is easy for a school owner to spend less on education and then pocket the savings. That’s why for-profit colleges, particularly when they have been financed by the government, have shown a tendency to over-promise and under-deliver, sometimes to scandalous proportions. Public and other nonprofit […]
Robert Shireman
Formerly the Obama administration’s U.S. deputy under secretary of education, Robert Shireman is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation working on education policy with a focus on for-profit college accountability, quality assurance and consumer protections.