More than 90 percent of students who concentrate in career and technical education graduate from high school, and about three-quarters of them continue their education after high school. Research shows that career and technical education has positive effects on students’ academic achievement, high school completion and college readiness.

 

Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College

By Randi Weingarten

Ms. Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers.

We’re in an economic pickle, and it’s self-induced. Home sales were down 5.9% in March. Consumer sentiment is chasing 10-year lows. Capital spending plans are way down. Cargo shipments from China to the U.S. are down by about a third. Truckers don’t get hired to haul empty containers. Retailers may lay off workers as store shelves empty. Apollo Global Management predicts all this by late May and a summer recession. Then look out below for corporate earnings. Increased private credit loan defaults could drive stagflation, the worst of all worlds.

 

The Economy Is in a Pickle

By 

Andy Kessler

May 4, 2025 4:31 pm ET

Interpreting Mozart or the Constitution is neither mechanical reproduction nor unfettered creativity. It is about using your eyes and ears and lived experience and education and critical lens and passion and skepticism and, above all, humility, to tease out the text’s infinite implications, and in doing so, to come closer to its essence.

 

A Pianist and a Law Professor Meet at the Bar …

By Jonathan Biss and Christopher Serkin

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist and Mr. Serkin is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School.

A comment on native Spanish expression in contrast to English language that I live with

 

The Things Only English Can Say

By Alex Maroño Porto

Mr. Maroño Porto, an associate editor at The Atlantic, is originally from Spain.

Mr. Trump’s bet is that Mr. Xi will blink first because the pain for the Chinese economy will be so great that he will have to strike an accommodation that will, over time, allow the United States to get back to something approaching normal. Mr. Xi is betting the opposite: that Mr. Trump has overreached, and can’t withstand bad G.D.P. numbers, rising inflation or plummeting polls. Only one of them is right.

 

A Flashing Economic Warning and a Sharp Political Jolt

The report that the economy contracted in the first quarter underscored how much President Trump has at risk as he pursues an aggressive trade war.

By David E. Sanger

David E. Sanger has covered six American presidencies and served as both a business and national security correspondent in Asia during a previous era of trade wars with the United States. He reported from Washington.

Trump may have unintentionally reduced carbon emissions just like a left wing moron

 

Trump May Have Unintentionally Reduced Carbon Emissions 

Carbon emissions, largely a byproduct of going places and making things, have always been tethered to economic growth. Forecasters increasingly anticipate that Mr. Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs could tip the economy into recession as companies and consumers cut spending in the face of higher prices for imported goods.

I always held Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew as a shining authoritarian light but an individual dies and so does the light

 

My Father Founded Singapore. He Wouldn’t Like What It’s Become.

By Lee Hsien Yang

Mr. Lee is a son of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founder and former prime minister. He wrote from London.