National Forensic League, Speech & Debate Honor Society - topics
Current Topics Policy Debate 2012-2013 Policy Debate Topic Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its transportation infrastructure investment in the United States. Lincoln-Douglas Debate, presented by Lincoln Financial Group
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
The Dirksen Congressional Center: [Programs] Congress in the Classroom®
What is Congress in the Classroom®? What Do Participants Say About the Program? Session Titles, Presenters, and Presentations, 2013 Selected Presentations, 2012
Greg Mankiw's Blog
Who Holds the Federal Debt
See the history of the debt limit since 1980. As of the end of March, the federal government owed $14.27 trillion to a wide variety of holders of U.S. Treasury securities. This graphic depicts who those creditors are and the amount they have bought in treasuries. Click on the arrows next to a category to expand its subcategories. All amounts are in billions of dollars.
Marginal Revolution — Small steps toward a much better world.
newteacher
U.S. Education in Chinese Lock Step? Bad Move. By Brian P. Coppola and Yong Zhao The education systems in China and the United States not only are headed in opposite directions, but are aiming at exactly what the other system is trying to give up.
Musings on Economics, Finance, and Life
Home of the Concord Review, the National Writing Board
The Concord Review, Inc., was founded in March 1987 to recognize and to publish exemplary history essays by high school students in the English-speaking world. With the Summer 2013 Issue (#97), 1,066 research papers (average 6,000 words, with endnotes and bibliography) have been published from authors in forty-six states and thirty-eight other countries. The Concord Review remains the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students. Many of our authors have sent reprints of their papers with their college application materials, and they have gone on to Brown (25), Chicago (20), Columbia (21), Cornell (15), Dartmouth (20), Harvard (116), Oxford (13), Pennsylvania (23), Princeton (60), Stanford (38), Yale (97), and a number of other fine institutions, including Amherst, Berkeley, Bryn Mawr, Caltech, Cambridge, Chicago, McGill, Middlebury, MIT, Reed, Smith, Trinity, Tufts, Virginia, Wellesley, Wesleyan, and Williams.
List of political parties in the United States
This is a list of political parties in the United States, both past and present. Parties with federal representation[edit] Current United States Congressional seats Congressional leadership of the House of Representatives
Social Studies Resources
On this page you will find links and resources for web based resources related to the Social Studies curriculum. (Updated: 04-15-11) History Resources 1.) For U.S. History teachers there is Mission U.S.
Harry T. Burn
Harry Thomas Burn, Sr. (November 12, 1895 – February 19, 1977)[1] was a member of the Tennessee General Assembly for McMinn County, Tennessee. Burn became the youngest member of the state legislature when he was elected at the age of twenty-two. He is best remembered for action taken to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment during his first term in the legislature. Education[edit] Born in Niota, Tennessee, Burn graduated from Niota High School in 1911.
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball
House 2018: Less Than a Year Out, Race for Control Is a Coin Flip 25 ratings changes, mostly in Democrats’ favor Kyle Kondik, Managing Editor, Sabato's Crystal Ball November 30th, 2017
