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This House believes western universities should only place satellites in states that respect free speech

7 Dec 2012

A university of less-than-liberal arts?Should Yale University refuse to operate in Singapore where human rights and free expression face significant...

This House believes single-sex schools are good for education

17 Apr 2012

Single-sex schools are schools that only admit those of one specific gender, believing that the educational environment fostered by a single gender is more...

This House would introduce year round schooling.

20 Feb 2012

Reformers argue that the school calendar used in countries round the world is outdated and inefficient. The current system, which usually consists of two or...

This House Would Ban junk food from schools.

17 Feb 2012

Junk food is defined by Segen’s Medical Dictionary as “A popular term for any food which is low in essential nutrients and high in everything else—in...

This House would ban homework

26 Jan 2012

Homework is a task (often called an assignment) set by teachers for students to do outside normal lessons – usually at home in the evening. Schools have...

This house Would reintroduce Corporal Punishment in Schools

26 Jan 2012

Corporal punishment is a physical punishment in which pain is deliberately inflicted on a perpetrator of a wrong in order to exact retribution and to deter...

School

13 Sep 2011

Education | Learning | Single race school | Education

The United States has suffered from racial disparity even before it was a nation, and the lasting effects of institutions of racism are still apparent in...

Corporal Punishment

13 Sep 2011

Corporal Punishment | Education | Learning | School | Law

Corporal punishment is a physical punishment in which pain is deliberately inflicted on a perpetrator of a wrong in order to exact retribution and to deter...