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In this opinion piece, Vincent L. Stephens, CAS associate dean for diversity and inclusion, writes about the educational and developmental benefits of competitive speech and debate programs for high school and college students.

Factories and bad schools. why cant we fix it? why cant we fix it? >> what weve got to do is intervene early with kids. if we can prevent kids from getting into middle and high school, not reading, we could deter the number of people who end up behind bars. when you go into prisons and i actually have done work in some of the correction facilities here in new york city where we sponsor debate programs, what you find is large numbers of the young people who are incarcerated cant read. they have l...

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