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		<title>an immodest proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No utopia is envisioned here. Reinventing the liberal arts college will require more work than we do now and result in different problems than we have now.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=262&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Root Cause of Market Failure In Higher Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RealClearMarkets &#8211; The Root Cause of Market Failure In Higher Education. College participation rates will have to go back down to historical norms. Slots will have to be reserved for students that can actually profit from them, restoring graduation rates to where they were before colleges were flooded with people who don&#8217;t belong there, including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=257&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>STUDENT DEBT: America&#8217;s Next Bubble?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Figures provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York show that since 1999, outstanding student loan debt has grown by more than 511 percent. Over that same period, all other household debt in America – the sum total of all credit card bills, all auto loans, even all mortgage debt assumed during the great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=255&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Trojan Horse in “Higher” Education &#124; Front Porch Republic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The life and health of the world—that one value of which Wendell Berry wrote long ago in “Discipline and Hope”—have not improved since the advent of standardized testing or the opening of universities to everyone with a pulse. And still every year hordes of credulous young people are told to part with good money, most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=253&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A college education is your best bet</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2011/06/09/a-college-education-is-your-best-bet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a new Georgetown University study that analyzed the earning outcomes of 171 types of college degrees found that every single one generates a positive return &#8212; even after college costs and foregone earnings are taken into account. It found that, overall, college graduates make 84% more over a lifetime than their high school-educated counterparts. via [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=251&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Engineering Journalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-Engineering Journalism « Knight Garage. 20 visions of the future of journalism, brief talks by the 2011 Knight Journalism Fellows.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=247&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College is a waste of time</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2011/06/03/college-is-a-waste-of-time-cnn-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 02:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dale Stephans I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us. Failure is punished instead of seen as a learning opportunity. We think of college as a stepping-stone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=244&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>alternative college concept</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2011/05/31/alternative-college-concept/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 17:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Mr. Liston, a tall man with a shaved head and an inviting gaze, made his pitch: He was calling his project Sphere College. The curriculum would be individualized. It would focus on helping students identify their passions and learn how to use them in the world. It would be delivered in three phases, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=241&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking the Christian college communication curriculum</title>
		<link>http://wallymetts.com/2011/04/02/rethinking-the-christian-college-communication-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 14:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technical expertise is everywhere.  Good judgment is not. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=229&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the new dark ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post also appears on my personal blog, thedaysman.com The Chronicle of Higher Education recently asked scholars and illustrators to answer the question “What will be the big idea of the next decade, and why?” First off, Jaron Lanier from Microsoft says it will be the end of human specialness. A “nerd” religion is evolving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wallymetts.com&amp;blog=5471758&amp;post=224&amp;subd=wallymetts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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