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New GAO report identifies:

seven for-profits, seven nonprofit privates and one nonprofit public institution were found to have violated the ban

on incentive-based compensation between 2002 and December 2009. I've written in opposition to the ban on incentive-based pay in an article for Career College Central. Career College Association President Harris Miller was quoted in an Inside Higher Ed story as saying that the violations:

"involve institutions of all types," even though accusations against for-profit institutions have garnered the most headlines about incentive compensation.

Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute on why we should abolish the Department of Education:

many Americans - who are generally too busy with other things to cogitate over why government fails - truly equate federal politicians interfering in education with improving education. But as decades of academic stagnation and belt-busting budgets have proven, that's just not the case.