Veritas Schools secured its eighth victory at a Harvard summer debate program, beating competitors from 25 different nations.

One of America’s sunnier national convictions is that when people disagree it is useful, even virtuous, for competing sides to make their cases to the public. We wrap this belief in decorum and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a heated argument over whether the government should mandate organ donation at the NYC Reads Championship Tournament for middle schoolers at the CUNY School of Law in Long Island City. The New ...

Nine students from Carson High School’s Speech and Debate team will travel to Richmond, Virginia, June 14-19, to compete in the 2026 National Speech and Debate Tournament, hosted by the National ...

Nearly 10 months after part of Bristol’s Edgewood School roof collapsed, uncertainty about whether to repair the building has become an issue in one of the city’s hardest political campaigns in years.