Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lana Parker, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Windsor Back-to-school is around the corner, which means that many parents will soon receive requests from schools to pay fees, contribute supplies or support fundraising activities. But many families are already shouldering significant financial concerns. This raises…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Masako Toki, Senior Education Project Manager and Research Associate, Nonproliferation Education Program, Middlebury Supporters of nuclear disarmament, including Hibakusha, demonstrate in Oslo, Norway, in 2024. Hideo Asano, CC BY-ND Eighty years ago, in August 1945, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were incinerated by the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa – By Tracy Kitchen, Lecturer: Student Academic Development, Rhodes University Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash South African learners consistently struggle with reading comprehension, performing poorly in both international and local assessments. A significant issue is that 81% of grade 4 learners (aged 9 or 10) are unable…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Jonathan E. Cohen, Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine and Director of Policy Engagement, Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, University of Southern California, University of Southern California Steep cuts in US government funding have thrown much of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Tanner Ethan Walker, Assistant Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University ‘Samson and Delilah,’ by Anthony van Dyck, 1599-1641. DeAgostini/Getty Images The biblical figure of Samson has long been understood as a man of brute strength, a warrior on the margins of society whose story is often…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (3) – By Jill Lens, Professor of Law, University of Iowa At least 1 in 4 stillbirths in the U.S. are preventable, research shows. O2O Creative/iStock via Getty Images Plus About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth. The best way to find out why…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Peter Boumgarden, Professor of Family Enterprise, Washington University in St. Louis Imagine it’s April 2025 and you’re the owner of a small but fast-growing e-commerce business. Historically, you’ve sourced products from China, but the president just announced tariffs of 145% on these goods. Do you…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Betsy Pudliner, Associate Professor of Hospitality and Technology Innovation, University of Wisconsin-Stout The American South – and the nation more broadly – continues to wrestle with how to remember its most painful chapters. Tourism is one of the arenas where that struggle is most visible.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Gail Richmond, Professor of Education, Michigan State University Finding good candidates to fill that teacher’s chair is no easy task. Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Nearly 500 of Michigan’s 705 school districts reported teaching vacancies in the fall of 2023. That’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Rebecca Dore, Director of Research of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy, The Ohio State University Rep. Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, speaks during a House hearing in March 2025, months before Congress rescinded two years of public media funding. Nathan Posner/Anadolu…