Tools & Research

Websites

Argutopia  — An interactive web-based tool and platform for classroom debates [coming soon]

Broward County Debate Program
Link: Learn More

Classroom debates (suggestions for topics and formats)

Link: Learn More

Structured Debate in the Classroom (Leah Cleary)

Link: Learn More

Talk the Talk – Oracy Resources for the Classroom
Links: Website

The Noisy Classroom (more from Oracy)

Link: Website

120 Topics for High and Middle School Students

Link: Website

Books

Bell, Julian: The Debating Book: everything you need to know about debating

Links: Amazon

Kuhn, Deanna, et al: Argue with Me: Argument as a Path to Developing Students’ Thinking and Writing (Eye on Education)
Links: Amazon

Johnson: Steven: Winning Debates: A guide to debating in the style of the World Universities Debating Championships
Links: Amazon

Litan, Robert: Resolved: Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save Our Democracy
Links: Amazon

Meany, John and Kate Shuster: Art, Argument and Advocacy: Mastering Parliamentary Debate
Links: Amazon

Sexton, John: Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age

Links: Amazon

Shuster, Kate and John Meany: Speak Up! Debate and Public Speaking in High School
Links: Amazon

Voth, Ben (editor): Debate as Global Pedagogy

Links: Amazon

Movies

The Great Debaters
Links: IMDB

Resolved
Links: IMDB

Research

Allen, Mike, Sandra Berkowitz , Steve Hunt & Allan Louden. “A meta-analysis of the impact of forensics and communication education on critical thinking.” Communication Education 48, January 1999. https://groups.wfu.edu/debate/MiscSites/MetaArticle1999.doc.

Anderson, Susannah and Briana Mezuk (2015), Positive Youth Development and Participation in an Urban Debate League: Results from Chicago Public Schools, 1997-2007, The Journal of Negro Education, https://doi.org/10.7709/jnegroeducation.84.3.0362.

Kennedy, Ruth (2007), “In-Class Debates: Fertile Ground for Active Learning and the Cultivation of Critical Thinking and Oral Communication Skills,” International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Volume 19, Number 2, 183-190, https://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE200.pdf.

Ko, Tomohiro M. and Briana Mezuk (2021), Debate participation and academic achievement among high school students in the Houston Independent School District: 2012 – 2015,” The Journal of Negro Education, https://assets.urbandebate.org/wp-content/uploads/20210607122625/Ko-Mezuk-2021.pdf.

Shackelford, T. Daniel M. Scott Ratliff and Briana Mezuk (2019), “Participating in a high school debate program and college matriculation and completion: Evidence from the Chicago Debate League,” Education Research Review, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1218569.pdf.

Shackelford, Daniel (2019), “The BUDL Effect: Examining Academic Achievement and Engagement Outcomes of Preadolescent Baltimore Urban Debate League Participants,” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0013189X19830998.