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	School debate clubs face extinction
		The city's urban debate teams are faltering just as the cerebral pursuit reaches more teenagers by adding a little hip-hop to the formal world of debating.
		Debate teams give high school students a big boost because membership is one of those gold stars that many college admission officers notice.
		This is the essence of the urban debate movement.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/289420_dyingdebate20.html (1166 words)

	NAUDL \| About the Local Sites
		The Baltimore Urban Debate League is administered through a partnership between the Baltimore City Public School System, Towson University, and The Fund For Educational Excellence in Baltimore.
		The Twin Cities Urban Debate League is a partnership between the pubilc schools and the University Promise Alliance of the University of Minnesota.
		The Seattle Urban Debate League operates through a partnership between the Seattle Debate Foundation (SDF) and the Alliance for Education, an education reform organization, whose mission is to ensure that the Seattle School District prepares its graduates for post-secondary education, successful careers and productive citizenship.
	www.urbandebate.org /members (913 words)

	Barkley Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Atlanta Urban Debate League began in the mid-1980s in an effort to provide educational opportunity not being made available to students in the regular inner-city classroom.
		Encourage transitions from Urban Debate League tournaments to traditional tournaments held in the city, the state, the southeast and the nation.
		Several early UDL students have gone on to seek advanced degrees and become debate coaches at the secondary and collegiate levels.
	www.emory.edu /BF/comm/jrhigh.html (736 words)

	Urban debate league - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Urban Debate Leagues were established simultaneously in Atlanta, GA and in Philadelphia, PA under the auspices of a three year $5,000.00 urban debate league challenge grant (for three consecutive years) sponsored by Phillips Petroleum and by the National Forensic League in the late 1980s and early 90s.
		The Atlanta Urban Debate Grant was to the (Alban)Barkley Forum of Emory University, which founded the Atlanta Urban Debate League in 1985, in partnership with Atlanta Public Schools.
		The urban debate program was part of a broader thrust at the high schools, including a mock trial program, an oratory program, a laywer in the classroom program, and other similar programs aimed at urban speech and debate outreach in Philadelphia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Urban_debate_league (1815 words)

	Baltimore Urban Debate League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Baltimore Urban Debate League is especially interested in students with untapped potential, who are disengaged from the contemporary high school classroom.
		Because debate requires self-directed learning and includes opportunities for competitive success, it motivates students who have never before felt the thrill of being responsible and rewarded for their own learning.
		Debate enables students to present their views effectively and respond to the arguments of those who disagree with them.
	www.soros.org /initiatives/baltimore/focus_areas/f_urban_debate (536 words)

	The Value of Debate
		In the past, competitive debate was mostly associated with students who attended private schools and came from affluent backgrounds.
		Strategic Involvement: Many students associate debate with the worlds of politics and law, and some who desire to follow these career paths say joining a debate team is a "logical choice." Others join in an attempt to "beef up" their transcripts before applying to college.
		The UDL says that because students involved in debate regularly engage in writing, information analysis and in-depth library and Internet research, they often receive higher grades than non-debaters in high school and are more likely to continue on to post-secondary education.
	www.connectwithkids.com /tipsheet/2002/83_jul31/debate.html (700 words)

	Twin Cities Urban Debate League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Urban Debate Leagues (UDLs) have had remarkable success in 13 major cities across the country.
		Research shows UDL debaters improve their grades and class rank by an average of 6% over two years.
		Debate not only promotes cross-cultural respect and understanding; it also meets the needs of our diverse school population, providing a structure for acquiring the form and content of effective communication.
	www.umpds.org /udl/impact_of_debate.php (176 words)

	Our Staff - DEBATE - Kansas City
		“Debate transformed and enlightened me. It increased my awareness of the societal and political structures that shape our world.” He was first distinguished in high school as an All-American debater and state champion extemporaneous speaker.
		His passion for debate dates back to high school, where he qualified for the National Forensic League’s national tournament in both policy debate and student congress.
		Isaac has a great debate mind and is very excited to work with DKC students and coaches.
	www.debatekansascity.org /ourStaff.aspx (367 words)

	National Debate Project:
		As part of the commitment, Emory University hosts an Urban Debate League tournament each year, sponsors teacher and student training, coordinates institutes and tournaments with Atlanta Public Schools and other schools in Georgia, provides academic interns and instructional materials, and provides assistance for the establishment of similar programs in cities across the nation.
		This division is for all debaters with one year of debate experience or more and beginners who wish to debate at a more advanced level.
		Debate coaches should prepare their students for the possibility of being promoted because we will not make exceptions about staying in junior varsity.
	communication.gsu.edu /ndp/urban.htm (1912 words)

	Taking time out to argue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Austin is the newest member of the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues, which aims to use debate to improve education in urban areas while promoting equal access to debate competitions.
		Urban debate leagues in Chicago, New York and Washington sent 16 students this year.
		"Debate gives all students valuable communication skills while focusing on issues that may be particularly relevant to students from inner-city areas, such as search and seizure issues and public housing," Rollins said.
	www.statesman.com /search/content/metro/stories/07/25debate.html (485 words)

	NAUDL \| Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues exists to improve urban public education by empowering youth to become engaged learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities.
		Urban Debate Leagues (UDLs) organize interscholastic debate as an academic competition, and promote debate as a component of the regular classroom curriculum, so that urban youth who have for so long been denied the powerful academic benefits of debate can be offered this valuable learning tool.
		UDLs have a positive academic impact on the entire urban public school systems that they are in.
	www.urbandebate.org.cob-web.org:8888 (344 words)

	National Forensic League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The league is sponsored by Emory University and the Atlanta Urban Debate League.
		The middle school league began in the mid-1990s in an effort to involve the middle school students from Atlanta Public Schools in debate. Soon, private schools began to compete, including Westminster, Pace and Stratford Academy.
		Debaters use the NFL High School Resolution, and this year they are limited to the evidence and cases in the Georgia Forensic Coaches Association novice packet — Affirmative teams run cases dealing with Sudan, India/Pakistan or Rapid Reaction Force.
	www.nflonline.org /Rostrum/Njfl0505Bearden (292 words)

	Austin UDL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Policy debate is a format in which two-person teams from different schools are matched against each other, with each side randomly assigned to either affirm or negate a resolution chosen each year by the nation's high school coaches.
		Debaters also learn about a number of modern issues, such as foreign and domestic policy, the political process, economics, and modern philosophy and ethics.
		The Austin UDL is affiliated with the National Association of Urban Debate Leagues, and is sponsored by the debate programs at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University at San Marcos.
	www.austinudl.org (246 words)

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		Debate Track – In addition to the general meeting, debaters are expected to attend two meetings per week with the coaching staff.
		The debate team meetings are necessary for learning skills necessary for competition, scheduling practice rounds and tournaments.
		Debaters are expected to attend and participate in all scheduled events.
	wwwnew.towson.edu /speechanddebate/Syllabus.htm (1659 words)

	Associated Leaders of Urban Debate
		Right now, debate is transforming the classroom as a learning tool, creating community awareness in the public sphere, fostering confidence in middle schools, and building leadership skills and critical thinking in community-based organizations.
		Debate should be everywhere that young people face difficult choices and need more tools to overcome the barriers they face.
		A national study concluded that urban debate increases literacy by as much as 25% in a single year and debaters are three times less likely to engage in risk taking behaviors that lead to crime, drug use and violence.
	www.debateleaders.org /urbandebatemission.html (686 words)

	Boston Debate League (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The league works with the schools to provide the educational experience of debate to their students.
		The Boston urban debate league (BDL) will continue introducing debate to public schools in the boston area, contributing research and volunteer coaching, and constructing a structure for interschool competition.
		Urban debate leagues are started and sustained by volunteers who have benefited from academic co-curricular activities and would like to give high school students opportunities.
	www.bostondebate.org.cob-web.org:8888 (411 words)

	CDL \| Home Page
		Debaters who have debated Maverick in six or more rounds during the season are not eligible to debate in the Elimination Rounds.
		The Chicago Debate League (CDL) serves to advance the Mission of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS): to be the premier urban school district by providing high quality instruction, outstanding academic programs, and development supports to prepare its students for tomorrow's challenges.
		The NAUDL's purpose is, "to improve urban public education by empowering youth to become engaged learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities." To learn more about the NAUDL, click here or click on the NAUDL logo on the left.
	www.chicagodebateleague.org (1303 words)

	IESE: Providence Urban Debate League Workshop: Debate Across the Curriculum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Providence Urban Debate League was founded in the fall of 2000 with a seed grant from the Open Society Institute, a foundation that has supported the sustainability of 13 Urban Debate Leagues across the country.
		The goal of the Urban Debate League is to create sustainable opportunities for competitive policy debate and argumentation curriculum in under-funded urban schools across the state.
		Debate Across the Curriculum is an extension of the Providence Urban Debate League.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/IESE/Institutes/2002/pudl.html (469 words)

	Baltimore Urban Debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Chris and Dayvon are two of the top debaters in the Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL), which gathers 200 students from 27 inner-city high schools to participate in the fine, time-tested sport of competitive argument.
		Baltimore's urban debaters muster arguments with impeccable logos, or logic, yet they also have life experience to draw on that can infuse their positions with pathos, or deeply held feelings that can sway judges in a tie.
		Urban Debate League students take away payoffs that go well beyond the trophies they collect: articulate dissent, self-esteem, confidence, an awareness of global issues.
	www.whatkidscando.org /featurestories/budl.html (1132 words)

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		Mays is part of the Urban Debate League—part of a national program started by Atlanta’s Emory University that instructs public school kids from poor areas in the traditionally upscale art of debate.
		The leagues work with schools, recreation directors, public housing officials and others to establish, fund and support debate teams in areas where the competitive talkathons are far from traditional.
		Lee, who was one of the instructors at the debate institute camp and will join Emory’s faculty as a debate coach in the fall, said he enjoys working with new generations of urban debaters who—even if they don’t stay with the game—are hopefully taking away valuable life skills.
	www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=65230 (686 words)

	U of M Debate - Navigation System
		As a debater at Macalester College she twice reached the elimination rounds of the National Debate Tournament and was a Semifinalist at the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament.
		Former Debater at Mercer University and Assistant Debate Coach at the University of Alabama.
		Former Director of the Bay Area Urban Debate League and Co-Director of the Tuscaloosa Debate League.
	www.michigandebate.com /institutefaculty.cfm (1989 words)

	NAUDL \| 60 Minutes Tells the Urban Debate League Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The story focused on the Baltimore Urban Debate League as a lens through which to tell the UDL story of our Leagues in fourteen major cities throughout the country.
		The Baltimore Urban Debate League is administered through a partnership between the Baltimore City Public School System, Towson University, the Fund For Educational Excellence in Baltimore, and the Barkley Forum of Emory University.
		This is a unique opportunity for the urban debate movement to gain further interest from potential allies and friends in support of debate’s revitalization and sustainability in urban public schools.
	www.urbandebate.org /newsStory.py?id=36 (406 words)

	Twin Cities Urban Debate League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the Twin Cities, debate programs flourish in private and suburban schools, but they are noticeably absent in inner city schools.
		The goal of the Urban Debate League of the Twin Cities is to bring debate back to our inner city public schools and, ultimately, to revitalize Minnesota’s tradition of influencing public policy.
		Urban debate programs have had remarkable success in 13 major metropolitan areas across the nation, including Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Newark, Providence.
	www.umpds.org /udl (267 words)

	Volunteer Central
		The mission of the Baltimore Urban Debate League (BUDL) is to improve educational opportunities for Baltimore City high school students by empowering them to become engaged learners, critical thinkers and active citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities.
		Because debate requires self-directed learning, and provides opportunities for competitive success, it motivates students who have never before felt the thrill of being responsible and rewarded for their own learning.
		The Baltimore Urban Debate League was featured in the June 8, 2003 segment of CBS' 60 Minutes and has received extensive print coverage in U.S. News and World Report and repeated coverage in the Baltimore Sun and several other local print and radio outlets.
	www.volunteersolutions.org /bvu-maryland/org/2581531.html (507 words)

	Jersey Urban Debate League - News - Archive
		Debaters from Newark, East Orange and Orange studied at Dartmouth College, Emory University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, University of North Texas and the University of Vermont as well as at Sacred Heart HS in Massachusetts, CITI 2006 in New York City and JUDL's own 3 day August wrap-up at Technology HS.
		One hundred and ninety eight (198) policy debaters and eighty-eight (88) Lincoln Douglas debaters from Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington DC competed on Friday and Saturday in the varsity division.
		Indeed, the most exciting development in the high school league is the 26 freshmen debaters who graduated from the middle grades league and are now competing for 4 of the high schools.
	www.judl.org /news/archive.shtml (3604 words)

	Jersey Urban Debate League - About Us - Overview
		The preparation and delivery of debate arguments provides students with the opportunity to think critically, develop their academic research skills, improve their communication abilities, solve problems creatively and increase their self confidence.
		Because students involved in debate regularly engage in writing, information analysis, and in-depth library and Internet research, debate students often receive higher grades than nondebaters in high school and are more likely to continue on to post-secondary education.
		The Jersey Urban Debate League (JUDL) was established through a grant from George Soros' Open Society Institute and operates in a partnership with FOCUS, Inc. JUDL will cover an area with a radius of 10 miles with Newark at the center.
	www.judl.org /aboutus/overview.shtml (416 words)

	The Julia Burke Foundation - Debate Information
		The Debate program assistance is given to the Julia Burke Endowment for Debate at the College Preparatory School in Oakland, California, and to the Bay Area Urban Debate League for scholarships to summer institutes and program support.
		A national high school annual debate award has been established, and was presented for the first time at the national Tournament of Champions, held at the University of Kentucky on May 6-8 of 2000.
		The purpose of this award is to recognize a high school policy debater who achieves competitive excellence in high school policy debate on the national circuit, and who demonstrates goodness of heart despite the pressures of competition at the highest level.
	www.juliaburkefoundation.com /debate.htm (676 words)

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