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A crowd protesting then U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in 2017. Throughout the history of the United States, various topics have been censored and banned in education, including teaching about evolution, racism, sexism, sex education, and LGBTQ+ topics.
Jonathan Ellis wrote in The New York Times that competitive debate promotes biased reasoning by giving debaters a specific view to work backward from rather than allowing them to come to their own unique position on a topic. [73] James Dimock, a debate coach at Minnesota State University, presented two objections to competitive debate in a 2009 ...
The National Educational Debate Association (NEDA) is an American collegiate debate association emphasizing audience-centered debate. It was founded by debate educators who believe that the debate tournament is an extension of the communication classroom and that even competitive debates should provide students with skills of research, argument ...
It’s time to move on from tired debates that defend the education of the past while depriving families of options. The Education Scholarship Trust Fund gives families a say in how – and where ...
WA legislators, members of the public debate new education choice scholarships bill. Carleen Johnson. February 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM.
The Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) (/ ˈ s iː d ə / SEE-də) is the largest intercollegiate policy debate association in the United States.Throughout the school year, CEDA sanctions over 60 tournaments throughout the nation, including an annual National Championship Tournament that brings together over 175 individual debate teams from across the nation to compete on the basis of ...
A wave of attacks against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from conservative leaders in the U.S. has brought renewed attention to such efforts amid calls to ban DEI programs.
The topic is only revealed to the students an hour before the actual debate by way of opening a sealed envelope in their presence. This ensures that no pre-written material can be used in the debate. Students are expected to speak for a total time period of four minutes which is followed by two minutes of questioning and rebuttals.