Student Debates Linked to Gains in Urban Achievement
Sean Cavanagh from Education Week highlights the link between education gains in city schools with increased student involvement in Debate programs supported by the Glenn Pelham Foundation for Debate Education. Read more here.
Good show as always guys. Look forwrad to your thoughts on Spanish Prisoner! I managed to watch House of Games , which shared some similarities. Thats not necessarily a good thing I enjoy the dialogue Mamet writes but in The Spanish Prisoner and House of Games there’s some scenes where it seems he’s trying to spell certain plot points out to the audience. Not sure if it’s intentional or not but it stood out. I did chuckle when James suggested a knowing/spanish prisoner podcast! I never clarified why I suggested it in the first place; mainly for me it held a few surprises from a technical point of view. While the religious undertones didn’t interest me, I actually enjoyed the way the two big disaster scenes were shot and presented in the film. It was a small percentage of the film, but I must say it suprised me as I was expecting a lot less as I’m not a fan of Alex Proyas. Plus, there’s a classic Nic Cage moment when he screams you want some of this? at a forest and hits a tree with a baseball bat.