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Search results for "Education Industry" ...
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Education for Sale
Education Management Corp. was already a swiftly growing player in the lucrative world of for-profit higher education, with annual revenues topping $1 billion, but it had its sights set on industry domination. So, five years ago, the Pittsburgh company's executives agreed to sell its portfolio of more than 70 colleges to a trio of investment partnerships for $3.4 billion, securing the needed capital for an aggressive national expansion.
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"Physicians on Pharma's Payroll: Educators or Marketers?"
This story focuses on doctors as industry speakers and their relationship with pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical companies claim to choose speakers based on expertise, but further investigation shows that many of the hired physicians have "serious transgressions on their state records." They also tend to be "high prescribers" of the company's products.
Tags: pharmacy; prescriptions; Geodon; Pfizer; antipsychotic drugs; pharmaceutical companies; Department of Health; New York; Food and Drug Administration
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Sex Slaves in America
The story is "the culmination of a year long investigation into the underreported epidemic of the forced trafficking of educated foreign women into the United States to work in the growing sex industry of massage parlors, strip clubs and cantinas in major American cities."
Tags: human trafficking; sex slaves; sex industry; sex rings; Detroit strip clubs; Houston cantinas; San Francisco's massage parlors; human rights violation
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School District Scandal, Oakland County, Michigan
The Detroit Free Press reviewed more than 12,000 pages of records from an affluent school district and found that the district was wasting millions of dollars that were intended for special education students and instead spent the money on private-industry deals. James Redmond, the former superintendent, and other district officials created companies that provided worthless services and unused equipment, they fooled taxpayers into paying more money and then spent the money on a building that was meant to headquarter their private enterprise deals. After Redmond's reign as superintendent, the once-prosperous district is $20.4 million in debt.
Tags: James Redmond; embezzlement; Accountability 101. Oakland County
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Selling Out Higher - Education Policy
The articles look at the power and influence deep-pocketed interests have on the making of higher-education policy in the nation's capital. The stories revealed that bankers from the student loan industry and for-profit colleges had donated almost $1 million to the members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The articles also show how those donations ended up being spent strengthening the Republican presence in the House.
Tags: politics; campaign contributions; lobbying; lobbyists
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Are these diet pills deadly?
Glamour reports on a decade-long lack of action by the FDA against the drug ephedra. The writers charge the drug industry with stalling the government on both state and federal levels. The story also exposes the ways in which some manufacturers purportedly proved their products were safe and effective, documenting how little research had ever been done on ephedra-based supplements and debunking the single study most often cited by the industry. The story also talks about how marketers continued to use flimsy evidence to make claims about their products efficacy....claims that were unanimously voted to be false and scientifically impossible by the Federal Trade Commission.
Tags: ephedra; diet supplements; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; ephedra-based supplements; Federal Trade Commission; Rand Corporation; Health and Human Services; herbal supplement; FDA; National Football League; National Collegiate Athletic Association; American Medical Association; consumer-advocacy groups; Xenadrine; Hydroxycut; Metabolife International Inc.; Metabolife; fen-phen; Dietary supplement Health and Education Act; DSHEA; Public Citizen's Health Research Group; Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders; diet pill; Ephedra Education Council; AER; adverse event report; Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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Corporate classrooms: Is tech indutry a savior or danger to education?
Technology is becoming more and more a part of the educational process, but at what cost? Companies are joining forces with campuses across the country, whether it be in the form of donating laptops to grade school students or having university buildings named after them. This special report takes a look at the controversial nature of campus-industry partnerships.
Tags: Internet; education; school; college; university; computer
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The Flickering Mind
This book documents weaknesses in America's education system. The author argues that technology in the classroom is detrimental to learning because it shrinks the academic experience and opens the school to manipulation by the computer industry.
Tags: BOOK
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Virgins, INC.: Premarital sex used to be a sin, now it's a bad career move. That's why the government funds the abstinence industry.
This article explains how the abstinence movement is getting more funding from the government. It also discusses the controversies surrounding educating teens about these issues.
Tags: abstinence; funding; federal government; sex education
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Conflict-of-Interest fears rise as universities chase industry support. Critics say campus policies may not fully protect academic freedom and the integrity of research.
This article talks about how budget problems are causing many universities to cut costs and lay off teachers and other staff members. In addition, conflict of interest issues are continuing to rise as universities struggle for funding.
Tags: education; universities; budget; cuts; costs; money; teachers; professors; faculty members; academics