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Baitball Blogger

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3. Education is a business.

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #2)

Sun May 27, 2012, 09:57 PM

May 2012

When you begin to see the long tentacles that emerge from UCF, for example, you begin to understand why Central Florida is so stagnant. No room for innovation. Just a lot of old ideas that get recycled so the same people can continue to thrive at everyone else's expense.

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College-readiness test yet another challenge for Florida students [View all] Baitball Blogger May 2012 OP

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The Pressure is On to Coerce Kids to Go to College and Get into Debt and Learn Not a Goddam Thing. NYC_SKP May 2012 #2

Education is a business. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #3

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My very first question about all of these tests is to ask SheilaT May 2012 #4

I don't know how they validated them. Igel May 2012 #6

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