The *Business* Of "Higher" Education: Questions Of Value
Q: And why in the heck should DL cost MORE? Should it not cost less?
What happenned to the video courses that were supposed to radically
change the way Americans learned on their time? Hardly any "higher"
educational facility uses these. Videotape one instructor, make
copies, send out. Must not be cost-effective.
And being "RA" is no guarantee that an institution is any better than
_not_ being accredited. The accreditation process is very expensive,
anal-retentive in its directives, requires unneccesary textbooks which
are astronomically over-priced, and promulgates the publish or perish
attitude.
A:I see from Chapter 24 of Bears' Guide, 13th edition, that we have Texas
Tech University High School, the State of Nebraska's Independent Study
High School, the Bloomington, Minnesota Internet High School, the North
Carolina Vance-Granville non-resident high school, the Moab, Utah
Electronic High School, the Florida non-resident Citizens' High School,
California's non-resident Newport Pacific High School, Pennsylvania's DL
Keystone High School,Georgia's non-resident James Madison High School --
and that's just for starters.
If "publish or perish" is not applied to nontraditional education, then that
education becomes a lesson in autoeroticism, rather than autodydactism.
I can certainly relate to what you've described, I dropped out of
Northeastern University in 1983 during my first quarter and joined the
Army (though I was stupid enough to take the $2000 bonus and go
Infantry).
The good news is that you've probably already earned some college
credit for your military education (and many DL programs will accept
those who didn't finish HS, especially veterans). Take a look at the
CLEP exams at; (http://www.collegeboard.org/clep/html/indx.001.html),