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   The American higher education system shunts striving low-
income students into a class of schools invisible to the elite.
The only thing these schools do well is drive their students to quit.
 What fifty little-known two-year schools can teach the rest of American higher education.
 How a humble trade school became the
best community college in America.
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By: R.I.P. SEAN HARRIGAN....CalPERS is the state of California's employee pension fund. Yesterday, as expected, Sean Harrigan finally lost his job as its president. Why? Because he's a shareholder activist who has pushed hard for reform in the executive suite. He's a union official who fought the Safeway strike last year. And he and other activists have fought boardroom cronyism relentlessly and nearly got Disney's Michael Eisner fired a few months ago. And then there's this:
That's a funny way of looking at things. Making it less onerous to nominate a new board which would still have to win the votes of a majority of shareholders is, for some reason, apparently not in everybody's interest. And here I thought that competition was supposed to be good for capitalism. Just not in the boardroom, I guess. —Kevin Drum 1:08 PM Permalink | Trackbacks | Comments (0)Comments
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