TRIPLED!! Or so you’d be led to believe if you were in the room at #WCET11 when Josh Jarrett of the Gates Foundation was speaking about High Quality Online Institutions that Scale. Apparently he said something that led to this tweet.
http://twitter.com/#!/jkelleher/status/129648228726603776
Which was then re-tweeted. Then I saw it and tried to set the record straight (falling on deaf ears, no doubt), as follows:
http://twitter.com/#!/barrydahl/status/129661613115588609
http://twitter.com/#!/barrydahl/status/129662673997660161
I learn a great deal from my Twitter network every day. But I also see a great deal of misinformation – mostly from the twitter feed at conferences.
For the record, student loan debt hasn’t yet topped the 1 trillion dollar mark – although it is expected to do so before the end of the year. The current (10/28/11) amount is $952+ billion, according the the Student Loan Debt Clock.
“Alarming stats” indeed! Alarming because they’re just not even close to the truth.
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