{"id":3810,"date":"2010-03-12T07:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2010-03-12T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T12:01:51","slug":"quote-the-blog-colleges-work-to-maintain-an-information-deficit-about-their-effectiveness-ben-casnocha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/12\/quote-the-blog-colleges-work-to-maintain-an-information-deficit-about-their-effectiveness-ben-casnocha\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote ::  The Blog: Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness  ::  Ben Casnocha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly true.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bottom Line: The sorry truth is that &#8220;colleges remain indifferent to how well they help students learn, graduate, and succeed in the workplace.&#8221; And &#8220;like the church&#8230;they see themselves as occupying an exalted place in human society, for which they are owed deference and gratitude.&#8221; We should demand that all data around the effectiveness of colleges at teaching students be made public and easily searchable so that consumers of higher education can make more informed choices.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/ben.casnocha.com\/2010\/03\/colleges-work-to-maintain-an-information-deficit-about-their-effectiveness.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bencasnocha+%28Ben+Casnocha%3A+The+Blog%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly true. Bottom Line: The sorry truth is that &#8220;colleges remain indifferent to how well they help students learn, graduate, and succeed in the workplace.&#8221; And &#8220;like the church&#8230;they see themselves as occupying an exalted place in human society, for which they are owed deference and gratitude.&#8221; We should demand that all data around the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/12\/quote-the-blog-colleges-work-to-maintain-an-information-deficit-about-their-effectiveness-ben-casnocha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quote ::  The Blog: Colleges Work to Maintain an Information Deficit About Their Effectiveness  ::  Ben Casnocha&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}