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 ...

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

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 ...

The exam school admissions debate split the BPS community across the city once again, as the superintendent and School Committee members take steps towards new policy changes this fall. “Our district ...

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 ...

WORCESTER — "I am asking for your vote, but I am asking you to get out and vote. We need to show that we are a strong city and the only way to accomplish that is to show up at the voting booth," ...