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An exploration of ethics, corruption, morality and integrity; elements largely impacting fraud, white collar, data related and computer assisted crime
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Runcie, the former Chief Operating Officer, Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education resigned under a cloud bigger than imagined. According to the OIG Inspector Tighe, “improper payments for the Federal Direct Loan program swelled from $1.28 billion in 2015 to $3.18 billion in […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Senator Warren (D-Mass) has taken the mantle to accuse US Department of ED Secretary DeVos of “helping for- profit colleges swindle students by illegally delaying an Obama-era Department of Education rule” [para 1]. Fraud is fraud. Whether from for profit college, non-profit university, traditional public, public […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology An update to this article are three graphs from the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Student Aid Office which reports upon (in graph format) the trend in student debt defaults. See here trends (graphs) in student financial aid defaults 2012-2018 Trends in student loan defaults Student […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology In England, a pay to stay scheme is a social housing program that controls rent for lower wage earners. In the US however, it is a fraud scam and occurs when owners of schools and universities entice hundreds of foreign nationals to obtain fraudulent immigration documents […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Today, a university in India was forced to clarify photos posted to social media showing Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) students taking an open book assessment. The photos appeared to demonstrate test security flaws and cheating. However, there are much broader implications. As a background, […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Venture capitalists invest $2 billion in US education annually with the expectation of realizing significant financial gains [1], At the same time, private foundations led by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Walton Foundation donate $4 billion to […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Today, NY Times continues its piece on Silicon Valley Billionaires Remaking America’s Schools. The dangers of super-sized donor influence in education have often been overlooked by federal and state regulators as it is believed that the benefits to society seem to outweigh the costs. However, Ms. […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Two districts within the largest school systems in the US; the Philadelphia Public School District, Pennsylvania and the Brooklyn District 188 in Illinois. are taking divergent paths to corrective action and future consequences for educators implicated in prior testing scandals. Allegations were made that a principal, […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology Last night at around 10:30pm, James Runcie, Chief Operating Officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, U.S. Department of Education resigned, reportedly due to his refusal to testify before the House Oversight Committee. House Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Rep. Virginia Foxx discerned, “No one […]
By: Tonya Mead, CFE, PI, MBA, MA Educational Psychology “We haven’t had a president yet, including Obama, who has cared about Chicago,” exclaimed Rep. Bobby Rush in an interview. The entire interview can be read here. The Washington Post surmised that the murder rate is so high that it has driven up the murder rate […]