by Nelson Graves | 28 Sep 2016 | News Decoder Updates
By Nelson Graves News-Decoder has expanded its international footprint and established a new teaching partnership as we build a community of young people around the world who are keen to tackle the most important global issues. Five academic institutions in three...
by News Decoder | 20 Sep 2016 | Art, News Decoder Updates
French artist Sandrine Courau has been with News-Decoder from the start. Now, with a new batch of sketches, she helps us build a global forum. Many News-Decoder readers will recognize the hand of French artist Sandrine Courau in a batch of new sketches that she has...
by Nelson Graves | 19 Sep 2016 | Americas, Education, United States
By Nelson Graves More than 4,400 Americans have been killed in Iraq since 2003. But most young people educated at U.S. universities and colleges cannot find Iraq on a map of the Middle East. Fewer than one third of the respondents in a poll of young people...
by News Decoder | 26 Aug 2016 | Europe, Islam, Terrorism, Women
What are we to make of France and the burkini? Should we be outraged that towns have banned the swimsuit? Or glad as it is a symbol of oppression? A woman wearing a burkini at a protest in London, 25 August 2016. (EPA/Hannah McKay) By Nelson Graves What are we to make...
by News Decoder | 25 Aug 2016 | Europe, Student Posts
By Alec Fullerton At the age of 16, I headed off on a typical student exchange with a French school. Despite the old-fashioned teaching style and the amusingly novel sight of a teacher smoking a clope out the window mid-class, the most striking difference between...