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Beihang University , Za in Proti Slovenia and the World Debate Institute are proud to announce the 2014 edition of an exciting program that we hope will appeal to all aspiring debaters of China, Asia and beyond. 18-25 July 2014, Beihang University, Beijing, China The 2013 program was a huge success. You can read about it at: http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/wdi/WDI_Blog/Entries/2013/8/25_Beihang_World_Debate_Academy_Success.html The program will feature the normal intense debate academy model we have become famous for. The program will instruct university students in the WUDC format in English. Each day will feature lectures, small group drills and exercises, two fully critiqued practice debates, and elective courses that students may choose. There will be no evening sessions. BWDA 2014 PROGRAM FACULTY: Ratib Ali, Bangladesh Mandy Frank, Kazakhstan Gina Iberri-Shea, USA Steve Johnson, USA Peter Mesarec, Slovenia Jernej Podgornik, Slovenia Arlan Narvaez, Venezuela Guohong Xu, China ...

Over 118 people from over 15 countries gathered in Slovenia for another edition of the World Schools Debate Academy, an intensive WSDC format training program for schools students, teachers and trainers. First Place: USA Blue - Sara Evall, Tiana Menon, Danny DeBois Second Place: Slovenia/USA - Graham Baker, Urh Lukhman, Egon Persak Third Place: Team Germany Final Round Judges: Sergey Naumoff (Russia), Geetha Creffield (Singapore), Matus Huba (Slovakia), Michelle Fennell (England), Julia Mikic (Croatia) In the tournament at the end of the event it was USA Blue 4-1 over Slovenia/USA in the finals. Third place team was Germany and the other semifinalist was Slovenia. Top Speaker was Olivia Scalisse Gaspar of Germany. Tab http://debate.uvm.edu/tabs/wsda_2014_teams.pdf http://debate.uvm.edu/tabs/wsda_2014_fulltab.pdf The faculty included: Miha Andric, Slovenia Geetha Creffield, Singapore Filip Dobranic, Slovenia Matus Huba, Slovakia Branka Josimov, Serbia Julia Mikic, Croatia Jernej Podgorn...

Middle schoolers Max Selendy, Alexander Gerstenhaber and Amari Bowman engage in a debate. Mark Abramson for The Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/articles/teaching-young-students-the-fine-art-of-arguing-1404870369 Teaching Young Students the Fine Art of Arguing More Schools Offer Debating Instructions to Younger Students By SOPHIA HOLLANDER July 8, 2014 9:46 p.m. ET When parents learn that debate training is mandatory for all students at Speyer Legacy School—starting in kindergarten—they typically have one response. " 'Oh great, they're going to be arguing more,' " recounted Radley Glasser, the Manhattan private school's debate director. But as any trained debater will tell you: Nothing is that simple. Debate teams have long been staples of high schools and colleges across the country. But over the past decade, educators have been training increasingly younger students, from middle schoolers down to 5-year-olds. The practice has prompted its own debate...

Document prepared by Christian Malm-Hesse Abstract: The vision and conception of the Pan African Universities Debating Council given its current disposition is imperative for reflection and possible colossal reforms. 1 I am not calling for individual change; neither do I fight for reforms in my country but for the mental liberation of the African youth to be a better citizenry who can join hands with me to cause positive change in his or her society or country, such that Africa would be the ultimate winner. The awaken impetus is to set out as an intellectual masturbation to cause review and reforms to the current constitution of the PAUDC in order to build a strong institution of the African Debate community. My analysis will emphasize the failure to realize the inaugural objectives of PAUDC. I will extensively review the current constitution of the PAUDC. This work will explore and evaluate the schedules, articles, and clauses of the current PAUDC constitution, in order to ascertain t...

 Dear All,  We are delighted to announce the start of DQ, a new coaching initiative that is serious about top-quality World Schools coaching. This programme is designed to  actively target  student debaters of all ability levels, and from a wide range of schools in Years 9-13. We are a team of four very experienced and successful debate coaches who are keen to make more students comfortable and competitive when debating in the World Schools format - particularly given this is the format which is used to select the England National Team, sent to the World Schools Debating Championships every year. We are initially running a full non-residential weekend of coaching and debating hosted at Dulwich College on  October 4 and 5 . The weekend is intensive and debaters who wish to really develop their understanding of the World Schools format will thrive during it. It goes without saying, that these skills are extremely transferable to BP debating as well....

From Sam Ward-Packard: Hi everyone, I'm very excited to introduce to you all a new resource for the US BP community:  usudebate.org . This website has a couple of purposes: facilitating USUDA votes and other business. making information about the USUDA and BP debate easily available to potential expansion schools. centralizing a number of useful tools for the community. Features a  schedule  which can be accessed by anyone on the internet via Google or another search engine. Brent Northup has kindly agreed to continue in his role as schedule master, and will be providing frequent updates. a  results page , where results from future US BP tournaments will be aggregated in an easy-to-consult fashion. a  membership page , which will streamline the process of joining the USUDA or updating your school's membership. USUDA news. Pages for updates from future hosts. Links to the USUDA constitution, meeting minutes, etc. Info about the USUDA for those with questions...

  Students at the Dallas Urban Debate residential summer camp July 2014 Your support provides debate to nearly 40 Dallas ISD middle schools and high schools and almost 1,000 students. In my four years as executive director, I have been blessed to see the first hand impact of your support. Our debaters are graduating from high school on time, getting recruited for college debate (and offered scholarships!), and gaining the necessary career skills to truly become better students and create a better Dallas. I am so excited to hand the reigns of the program you built to our dynamic and talented new Executive Director, Adam Powell. As Dallas Urban Debate prepares to expand into the Imagine 2020 schools, drawing on his experience as a former higher education advisor at James Madison, Adam will create tailored programming that caters to the needs of all of our schools. As the former COO at Education is Freedom, he will be able to spread the word of your good work locally and national...