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 ...

In large halls dotted across the country, the silence of the vast spaces is broken by the sounds of cheers, then silence. Suddenly, new sounds take precedence; it is a youthful voice of students ...

A student calls across the room as another scrambles to quickly respond before the clock runs out. At Northwestern, debates don’t just happen in classroom settings: They unfold in meeting rooms, ...