For anyone who was there, or watching the video online, it sure looked like Ryan Wash was in full grip of his moment in history.
The graduate of Kansas City’s Central High School had six minutes left in a two-hour debate to help his Emporia State University debate team do what had never been done before.
Two black men, bringing a fiercely personal style honed in urban debate leagues, were on the brink of winning the National Debate Tournament policy debate championship.

[…] California just voted on a ballot measure, called Proposition 30, which proposed to increase sales and income taxes to be allocated to public schools. An amazing 54 percent of Californians voted to pass the measure, but hold onto your seats, because Berkeley actually voted 90 percent approval of the tax hikes. As much as Johnson [...]

La croissance économique dépend des chemins d’innovation, a soutenu le professeur Martin Hall lors d’une conférence récente à Dakar. Cela signifie, explique t-il, de l’innovation à petite échelle mise en œuvre sur une période de temps, et non pas des événements ou des balles magiques. « L’innovation durable provient des effets cumulatifs de la mise en [...]

Economic growth depends on innovation pathways argued Professor Martin Hall at a recent lecture in Dakar. This means, he explains, small scale innovation implemented over a period of time, not events or magic bullets. “Sustainable innovation comes from the cumulative effects of implementing small scale, useful ideas over quite long periods of time.” There is [...]