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Mitt Romney's Rationale On For-Profit Colleges At Odds With Reality

Wed, 01/18/2012 - 11:04 — Dave Culver
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  • Romney's free-market views on higher education collide with reality.
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Chris Kirkham, Huffington Post

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Along the campaign trail during the past month, Mitt Romney has been offering up his answer to the soaring costs of higher education and student debt: competition from for-profit colleges.

Among other benefits, Romney said, "they hold down the cost of their education" by virtue of being in competition with other universities, according to a New York Times article on Sunday (January 15)<>.

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Insider's View of For-Profit Colleges, Race, Class and Education Justice, Tressie McMillan Cottom, Huffington Post

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