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Competitive debate, also known as forensics or speech and debate, is an activity in which two or more people take positions on an issue and are judged on how well they defend those positions. The activity has been present in academic spaces in the United States since the colonial period. The practice, an import from British education, began as ...
The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/ ˈ s iː d ə / SEE-də) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of ...
K-12 education in the United States includes primary education starting in kindergarten, and secondary education ending in grade 12. Government-funded free schools are generally provided for these grades, but private schools and homeschooling are also possible. Most children begin elementary education with kindergarten (usually five to six ...
Mathematics education has been a topic of debate among academics, parents, as well as educators. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 195 ] [ 38 ] Majorities agree that mathematics is crucial, but there has been many divergent opinions on what kind of mathematics should be taught and whether relevance to the "real world" or rigor should be emphasized.
Americans’ views of the K-12 education system improved from last year’s record low opinion of the institution, according to a new poll from Gallup. Satisfaction with K-12 is up 7 percentage ...
Higher education in the United States is an optional stage of formal learning following secondary education. Higher education, also referred to as post-secondary education, third-stage, third-level, or tertiary education occurs most commonly at one of the 3,899 Title IV degree-granting institutions in the country. [1]
The education of African Americans and some other minorities lags behind those of other U.S. ethnic groups, such as White Americans and Asian Americans, as reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees.
Education Scholarship Trust Fund continues to draw strong debate about fund’s beneficiaries and constitutionality (Letters to the editor) ... a recent poll revealed that 72% of parents of K-12 ...