William D. Goldsmith is a Ph.D. candidate at Duke University. He is working on a dissertation tentatively titled, “Kids, the New Cash Crop: Educating for Economic Development in North Carolina, 1965-2000,” which examines how policymakers incorporated education into economic development policy and its consequences for rural areas. Before Duke, he worked as a journalist for an alternative weekly paper in Charlottesville, Virginia and taught high school English in northeastern North Carolina. He earned his B.A. from Yale University in 2002.
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