For the media, the rise of left-wing politicians is a new phenomenon to be reported on and debated (and debated, and debated, and debated).
But of course lists are designed to trigger argument and debate, and argument and debate followed (and preceded) the publication of the issue.
1) Merit Pay and performance evaluation: Debated last year, debated and legislated this year, even though study after study and the Michigan Teacher Evaluation Committee commissioned by the Michigan legislature, led by University of Michigan's Dean Dr. Debra Ball, have said repeatedly this will not work to raise student achievement and has been proven to decrease student achievement.
While the country debated (and voted, and debated some more) about whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney should be president, a 20-year-old woman on the other side of the world had come up with a way to unite the two forever.
As Arendt writes, "The trouble is that factual truth, like all other truth, peremptorily claims to be acknowledged and precludes debate, and debate constitutes the very essence of political life.
As a non-debater, I was intrigued by your descriptions of the different styles and traditions in the high-school and college debate worlds policy debate and Oregon style, parliamentary debate, Lincoln-Douglas.
This year, we have assembled an exciting multi-disciplinary programme of presentations, debates and lightning pitches to discuss and debate the following questions: After the NSA revelations, how can we balance privacy, publicness and security on the web?
Briefly, policy debate is debating a policy.
The political dictionary is full of horrific abuses of the English language and this debate about debates has added another.
