High school debate teaches students that real-world topics are complex and involve competing values. Debate helps students turn arguments into understanding by identifying central clashes and ...

There’s no debate … members of the Arcata High School Forensics Team did very well at the Northern California Ronald Reagan Debate Series regional invitational in Redding. Pictured at the Northern ...

In his junior year of high school, Zion J. Dixon ’26 won the Tournament of Champions, widely considered to be the most prestigious competition in high school debate. By his junior year at Harvard, he ...

Going into his senior year at Roosevelt High School, Everett Murray wanted his last high school debate season to be a competitive one. Achieving that would be no easy feat. Roosevelt, a Title I school ...

BAUDL staff member Mya Whitaker and program alumna and debate all-star Ne’Jahra Soriano joined host Rachael Maurer to chat about the Bay Area Urban Debate League and the impact they are having on ...

SO DO YOU THINK YOU’RE EVER TOO OLD TO DEBATE IF YOU DID AFTER YOU SEE THIS NEXT STORY, YOU WON’T ANYMORE. WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HOSTED THE FIRST COMPETITIVE DEBATE BETWEEN TWO RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES ...

High school students compete in the Congressional Debate at the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa, in June. Credit: Meenakshi Van Zee for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...