In today’s rapidly changing economy, schools and employers must work together like never before to ensure that students acquire essential skills that will give them good options after high school — whether that means a trade-specific certification, a two-year degree, a four-year degree or beyond.
But equally important is the need to link teachers – not just their students –
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The following column by Christopher Gergen and Stephen Martin first appeared in The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer on Sunday, March 31, 2013. The authors served as judges for the Pitch Challenge at the Student STEM Symposium earlier in March.
This spring, approximately 91,000 North Carolina students will graduate from high school. More than three-fourths say they plan
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I spent last summer and fall engaged by the DC-based Bipartisan Policy Center to begin the process of finding consensus on some of the tough issues related to the role of education in the nation’s workforce development goals. The BPC was formed in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob
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I believe, in this nation, we have created a false dichotomy between education and workforce development.
American workers are among the best educated, skilled, flexible, and most resourceful in the world. Our citizens adapt more quickly to changing processes and technologies than in many other countries; critical thinking and initiative taking are hallmarks of American education and workplaces.
It is not
...Hundreds of North Carolina leaders in business, government and education gathered at N.C. State University’s Emerging Issues Forum to consider the future of manufacturing in a state where traditional industries such as textiles, furniture and tobacco are now largely a thing of the past.
Their conclusion: North Carolina’s prospects for harnessing the kind of advanced
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