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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The ed-blogosphere overflows with predictions of a ?higher educ?

By Glenn Reynolds

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

The ed-blogosphere overflows with predictions of a ?higher education bubble? inflated by worthless degrees, crushing student loans, dumbed-down majors, country club student life, bloated administrations, and throwdowns such as for-profits vs. non-profits, credentialing vs. educating, and tenured Brahmins afloat on the backs of disposable adjuncts. The bubble produces graduates who spend years ?academically adrift? just to be pitched up on the rocky shore of reality waving a diploma which neither signifies anything (knowledge or skill) nor produces anything (higher earnings or happiness). A search of Instapundit, law professor Glenn Reynolds?s Libertarian poli/tech blog, turns up 24 ?higher education bubble? stories in the last month alone. Google spits out 248,000 occurrences of the phrase. Still, I find no mention of one thing that epitomizes the whole sorry mess: the Ed.D.

Can the world ever have enough doctors of education?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).