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Private Colleges and Public Debt
When public community colleges are full, private for-profit colleges are an alternative. But they're costly and require federal loans that students often can't repay.
By Warren Olney • • 51m ListenWhen public, community colleges are full to the brim, private, for-profit colleges are an alternative. But they cost up to ten times as much and require many students to get federal loans they often cannot repay. We hear why the Department of Education wants to crack down. Also, an update on protests in Syria, and the predatory behavior of men against women in "post-feminist" society.
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3 storiesUpdate on Protests in Syria
Tens of thousands of Syrians defied President Assad and took to the streets again today. Police fired on the crowd and at least 26 people were killed in several cities. Borzou Daragahi is Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times .
Read the story8 minRegulating For-Profit Colleges
Across the country, public community colleges are inundated with applicants, but filled to capacity at a time when the public sector is cutting back. In the past ten years, private, for-profit colleges have picked up the slack by targeting low-income and minority students with massive recruiting campaigns.
Read the story31 minStrauss-Kahn, Schwarzenegger: Power and Sex
A judge has ruled that the former head of the International Monetary Fund can be bailed under very restrictive conditions. Today, a New York judge established stringent conditions to make sure that Dominque Strauss-Kahn won't be a flight risk once he's released on bail.
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