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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Line from the N.Y. Times: Two tenets of Bloomberg era...

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Line from the N.Y. Times: Two tenets of Bloomberg era...

Line from the N.Y. Times: Two tenets of Bloomberg era...

Mayor Bloomberg has dumped Chancellor Klein in N.Y.
Klein goes off to work on Rupert Murdoch's right-wing plantation, "to explore possibilities in education." I wonder what possibilities those might be?
Recently, two famous Wall Street short sellers, James Chanos and Steve Eisman, announced that they see a crash coming in the for-profit education sector, which is heavily dependent on online degrees paid for through federally guaranteed student loans. (New Yorker)
The news is better for Cathie Black who leaves Hearst's own struggling right-wing