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Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, November/December 2013
Not Your Father’s Shop Class
The promising revival of career and technical education.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, K-12, Magazine, November/December 2013
How to Build a Better Launch Pad for Young Americans
A commonsense plan that Congress can pass now.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
The Living-in-the-Basement Generation
How young adults are faring in America’s twenty-five biggest metro areas.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Introduction: Where Is Opportunity in America?
Once upon a time, proponents of the idea of “American exceptionalism” used to point to Europe’s high youth unemployment rates as an object lesson. See what happens, they’d lecture, when countries have inflexible labor markets and cradle-to-grave social benefits? But an inconvenient truth has emerged. The youth unemployment rate in the United States is now […]
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2013
Stay Put, Young Man
Americans used to be exceptional for how often they moved. But that once-powerful source of both efficiency and upward mobility is now in steep decline.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2013
A Matter of Degrees
In the future world of “credentialing,” do you still need college?
Posted inEconomy, Education, Higher Education, Magazine, September/October 2013
America’s Worst Community Colleges
The San Francisco Bay Area’s economy may be high tech, but its community colleges are the bottom of the barrel.
Posted inBooks, Law and Justice, Magazine, March/April 2013
Bar Examined
The ever-diminishing advantages of a career in the law versus the undiminished enthusiasm of law schools to mint new attorneys.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April 2013
Three Ways to Bring Manufacturing Back to America
The much-ballyhooed “in-sourcing” trend is real enough. But it won’t amount to much unless Washington acts.
