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Carolina Journal reports: The Senate Education Committee took action Wednesday, April 10, on a number of bills, including a law easing rules on welding and manufacturing internships. Lawmakers greenlighted some…
Shannon Watkins of the Martin Center documents her recent interview with N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction Mark Johnson. [S]ometimes we hear stories of high school students who are made to…
Jay Schalin of the Martin Center devotes his latest column to explaining different perspectives on higher education policy. Explaining higher education policy is never easy (even to people who are…
Carolina Journal reports: Republican candidate Amy Evans aims to take back a seat Democrats took from Republicans in 2008. The race between Evans and Democratic incumbent John Ager is listed…
Michael Morris writes for the Federalist about the benefits of blue-collar occupations. An underappreciated element about vocational jobs is how intrinsically motivating they can be. A distinctly human demand that…
Liz Wolfe writes for the Martin Center a warning directed to college students considering the pursuit of journalism studies. The incentives of school are fundamentally mismatched to the incentives of…
That’s the title of a piece by David Adler that appeared in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal last week. The experiment in question is the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in…
Edward Glaeser writes at National Review Online about changing government policy to avoid discouraging work. The rise of joblessness — especially among men — is the great American domestic crisis…
From Terry Stoops: Recently, both the North Carolina General Assembly and the Trump administration have earned praise by announcing plans to expand and strengthen apprenticeship and workforce development programs. Nevertheless,…
John Daniel Davidson writes at the Federalist website that President Trump is correct to focus more attention on apprenticeships. [P]lease, hold “The Apprentice” jokes, if you can. The apprentice model,…
For decades, economists have considered the costs and benefits of adopting variations of highly developed apprenticeship systems operating in Germany and Switzerland. Such efforts are based on the belief that…
Financial analyst Michael Falk offers Barron’s readers ideas for changing the way people pay for higher education. It’s easy to imagine free college for everyone. But we have to stop…