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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Oh, to be politically favored! ?Yesterday, the U.S. Department of ?

By Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Oh, to be politically favored! “Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education released the latest student-loan default data, and along with it offered some good ol? fashioned profit-bashing. Meanwhile, politically favored schools got off with nary a negative word. . . . Why do I point this out? Not to pick on HBCUs, but to further illustrate the point that the attack on for-profit schools isn?t really about saving taxpayer dollars or protecting students, but going after the easiest target to demagogue ? people honest about trying to benefit themselves as much as ‘the students.’ It is also to illustrate, once again, that when we let government fund something, it is political calculus ? not educational benefits, economic effectiveness, or what?s best for taxpayers ? that ultimately drives the policies. Which is why government needs to get out of the higher ed business that it has made both bloated and, ultimately, a net drain on the economy.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).