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Susana Holloway of Le Cordon Bleu's culinary school in Portland, Ore. on Feb. 16, 2010, where tuition can be up to $35,000 a year. Long accused of overpromising and underdelivering, commercial trade schools are under fire in this downturn because they are attracting more students and more Pell grants. (Leah Nash/The New York Times)

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