James Tooley, a professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, traveled the world researching The Beautiful Tree and describes the popularity of informal schools for low-income families in India and Africa. In India, Nigeria,...
“Trump Budget Would Slash Education Dept. Spending, Boost School Choice,” (Education Week, May 23, 2017), looks at changes proposed in federal education spending, but notes the largest: Grants for special education, which also go...
Sometimes looking at the past can help us see the present more clearly. And that applies to the 2017-2018 NSDA topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its funding and/or regulation of elementary...
Neither nationalism nor globalism are values. They are instead words that cast international relations and policies in different lights. A speech by the U.S. President can call U.S. based car companies Ford and General Motors national...
Notes below from Robert Bradley Jr., President of the Institute for Energy Research and editor of the MasterResource blog, from a presentation to Texas high school students. Bradley’s remarks are relevant for NSDA and...
Contrast a Forbes article about a global corporation bringing to developing countries knowhow for producing and the trust for buying quality goods, with a New York Times article. In “Kenyan Village Serves as Test Case...
