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Harkin’s Crusade Against For-Profit Higher Ed

Neal McCluskey skewers Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin for his crusade to make the entire for-profit higher-ed sector look dishonest in this Cato@Liberty post. The report Senator Harkin is using to launch his offensive disclaims that its findings are representative of the entire industry, but Harkin is interested in a show trial, not careful fact-finding and evaluation.

This is just the sort of thing to expect when education becomes politicized.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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