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A sense of urgency has taken hold of higher education leaders nationwide. Reports of declining community college graduation rates and the lack of skilled workers have led policymakers and college leaders to sound the alarm
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:44 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Policy experts and lawmakers point to Senate Bill 609, K-12 Scholarship Changes, as a noteworthy way to advance school choice in North Carolina.
Published: Friday, June 14th, 2019 @ 6:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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American higher education is a grand mess. But there is purpose in the apparent chaos of public universities; they are designed to protect free inquiry by equal citizens into the wide universe of subjects that concern a growing and vibrant country.
Published: Sunday, June 7th, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Eduardo Porter, who writes "The Economic Scene" for the New York Times, says our country's higher education system is in crisis and that he has a solution.
Published: Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 @ 9:20 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Scott Ralls, president of the North Carolina Community College System, says he noticed a problem with remedial education in the state's community...
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 9:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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College graduation rates—particularly four-year rates— are low, both nationwide and in the UNC system. So many factors contribute to the low rates (students’ poor preparation, their need to earn money by working, lack of interest, schools’ failure to provide the right...
Published: Monday, April 29th, 2013 @ 6:51 pm
By: Jenna Ashley Robinson
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That America needs a better-educated workforce has become today's honored wisdom, so what better measurement of progress than rising college graduation rates?
Published: Friday, February 15th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm
By: Robert Weissberg
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The following article was originally written and distributed in January 2006.
Published: Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 @ 12:47 am
By: Fern Shubert
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