Lately, my social media feeds have been full of Barbie-branded memes, AI-generated photos that you can put a picture of yourself and “become an instant Barbie,” and pink. Lots and lots of pink.
Published: Saturday, September 9th, 2023 @ 10:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Few issues are as politicized and utilitarian as public education. That’s unfortunate.
Published: Monday, February 1st, 2021 @ 4:47 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Philip Cross writes for National Review Online about Canada‘s approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 1:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thomas Wolfe is famous in part for a book published posthumously in 1940: You Can't Go Home Again. I am slowly coming to grips with that fact as I watch old friends, acquaintances and companies Fold Up their Tent and go home (or wherever if you wish).
Published: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 @ 8:15 am
By: Bobby Tony
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The science fiction pioneer H.G. Wells once observed that "human history is, in essence, a history of ideas."
Published: Saturday, October 15th, 2016 @ 10:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Entrepreneurship programs are spreading rapidly across America and are attracting a growing number of students. But one question keeps coming up: Is it really possible to teach entrepreneurship?
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2016 @ 10:29 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Don't you just love it when politicians who know NOTHING about a subject try to lecture people who DO KNOW something about a subject? Law enforcement and military folks get more than their fair share of it. And so do businesspeople.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:12 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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For the last decade I have taught entrepreneurship to literally tens of thousands of students in big classes, small seminars, and on the Internet in a massively open online course (MOOC). The sheer diversity of these students - their abilities, their backgrounds, their personal traits, and their...
Published: Thursday, August 20th, 2015 @ 3:40 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Suppose two unknown men are standing in front of us. One has the physique of LeBron James-six foot, eight inches tall, with 260 pounds of rippling muscle-while the other looks like a young Woody Allen-five foot, five inches tall, with narrow shoulders and Coke bottle-thick eyeglasses. We then...
Published: Wednesday, August 19th, 2015 @ 4:01 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Until recently, I was a college "bubble hawk." I saw significant parallels between the housing bubble that triggered the Great Recession and higher education. I believed that the combination of easy student loan money, rapidly increasing tuition, "creative disruption" caused by education...
Published: Friday, May 29th, 2015 @ 9:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Filmmaker Andrew Rossi is fascinated by creative destruction—a concept that sheds light on how new and innovative technology can disrupt and even topple an entire industry (e.g., Ford's Model T vs. horse-and-buggy manufacturers).
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2014 @ 7:57 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Some businesses would rather avoid competition and prefer instead to rely on government help in the form of special incentives, regulations, or other anti-competitive policies. Fred Smith has spent his career fighting that approach to business. Smith is founder and chairman of the...
Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2014 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The next time you discuss the pleas of local businessmen for taxpayer support of their endangered firms, please remember that businesses are not expected or meant to survive the competition of the market place.
Published: Sunday, February 2nd, 2014 @ 11:54 pm
By: Warren Smith
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Technological change has made online coursework very competitive with the traditional means of teaching. Will it lead to dramatic change in college, or have only a minor impact? Consider the analogy to music.
Published: Sunday, January 5th, 2014 @ 6:31 am
By: John William Pope Center
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Indeed, even in our state of North Carolina, where the first solidly Republican government in over 100 years won monumental victories, such as the end of tenure in K-12 education and major changes to the tax code, there was almost no reform for higher education.
Published: Thursday, October 10th, 2013 @ 6:26 am
By: John William Pope Center
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I am honored to be here today. Alas, my message is not altogether pleasant. Indeed, it may be the intellectual equivalent of having a hemorrhoid operation performed by an unlicensed French physician just returned from a wine-laden lunch.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Change is inevitable; whether it will come from deliberate policy changes or as an inevitable collapse remains to be seen.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 12:08 am
By: Jay Schalin
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