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The News & Observer
Editorial
September 17, 2011

North Carolina has taken pride in its university system, from classrooms where undergraduates probe the arts and sciences to laboratories where professors carry out high-stakes research. Its community colleges, with their close ties to industry, have helped keep the state's workforce from being even more severely wracked by the recession. But to shortchange either of those great resources, or the public schools where young people acquire the essential tools for college success, is to yield to mediocrity, both educational and economic. The pump must be primed, or it will deliver nothing of value. And as a state and society, we will be at risk of a painful, tragic withering.  Click here to read more.