Anthony Carnevale, director and research professor of the Center on Education and the Workforce, in an op-ed on the implications of the for-profit education market:

"The for-profit college industry is taking fire from all directions because a substantial number of for-profit colleges offer aggressively marketed programs of little value in the job market, leaving individuals unable to repay their debts and saddling taxpayers with the default burden. Much of the bad press is deserved, but the atmosphere of scandal and abuse detracts from a larger point: We have failed to adequately connect college and careers. The current abuses are but the worst-case examples of this failure."

Missing the Point

August 26, 2010, Inside Higher Ed