Curt Eysink is an unpopular man. Less than three months after assuming his post as executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, he told a panel charged with overhauling the state's higher education system: "We're producing a workforce that we cannot employ in Louisiana." The apparent problem? Too many four-year college grads and not enough low-skill and vocational trade workers. …
Tag: globalization
What Raindrops Tell us About the Emergent World Order
We've been on the path to globalized trade so long now that it is possible to imagine what the future may look like. Is yesterday's conspiracy — the New World Order — tomorrow's reality? This column compares an abstract subject to something most of us are far more comfortable with: raindrops.
American Competitiveness: The New Untouchables or The New Half Truth?
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman makes a superficially compelling case for reforming education in pursuit of American Competitiveness. But is he overstating its promise?