One in three internet users worldwide is a child under 18, estimates show. Expect that figure to rise as smart toys and all sorts of smart devices fuel constant connection. How will personal data, collected today, be used tomorrow? Answers are evolving. In a marketplace where…
We got lucky. By we I mean my family, which includes my wife and twin boys, who are now 16. They have never attended a traditional public school. They haven’t attended a private school, either. But that’s the great thing about freedom…
If my student group schedules a speaker on campus and you show up to shout down or obstruct the speaker, you aren’t exercising free speech — you’re trying to shut it down.
A Louisiana lawmaker touts a plan that would mirror one of North Carolina's recent reforms.
The annual rate of economic growth from 1995 to 2014 was more than a percentage point lower than it would have been in the absence of America’s debt explosion.
The only thing more worrying than the federal government’s recent announcement that the debt had reached $22 trillion, or 104 percent of GDP, was that it generated such little attention. In the 1980s and 1990s, by contrast, the issue was a central feature of the national…
As I listened Tuesday to a N.C. House committee discuss an alcohol bill, I thought about how America debated the 18th Amendment. In 1917, and for years after that. I thought about how we spoke to each other — those influenced by the…
Few missions will be as important, and as challenging, as preparing the next generation of principals to lead North Carolina’s schools.
A bipartisan state Senate bill focuses attention on the need for financial literacy.
As we learn how to produce more food, clothing, shelter, and other goods at a lower cost, that allows us to improve our standard of living by producing and consuming services.
