The middle schoolers' debatabase : 75 current controversies for debaters / Rhiannon Bettivia and National Forensic League.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettivia, Rhiannon, author.

National Forensic League (U.S.), author.

Contributor:

National Forensic League (U.S.), author.

International Debate Education Association, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debates and debating--Study and teaching (Middle school).

Debates and debating.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : International Debate Education Association, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides background, arguments and resources on 75 debate topics for middle schoolers.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction to Debate""; ""Debate Topics""; ""Adoptions, International""; ""Airline Passengers, Pay by Weight""; ""Animal Testing""; ""Art Subsidies, Government""; ""Cell Phones in Schools""; ""Cell Phones while Driving""; ""Charter Schools""; ""Cigarettes, Ban""; ""Cloning""; ""Contraceptives in Schools""; ""Copenhagen Accord""; ""Death Penalty""; ""Defense Spending, Cut""; ""Die with Dignity, Right to""; ""Draft, Military""; ""Dress Codes in Schools""; ""Drilling for Oil in Parks and Preserves""; ""Driving Age""; ""Drug Testing in Schools""

""Electoral College""""Environmental Standards, Differing""; ""Factory Farming, Banning""; ""Farm Subsidies""; ""Fashion Models, Size Zero""; ""Federal Student Aid""; ""Felon Disenfranchisement""; ""Gas Guzzlers, Ban""; ""Genetically Modified Foods""; ""Gentrification""; ""Health Care, Universal""; ""Health Courses for Students""; ""International Baccalaureate""; ""Junk Food Tax""; ""Juvenile Offenders in Adult Courts""; ""Letter Grades""; ""Martin Luther King, Jr. Day""; ""Meat, Eating""; ""Metric System, Adopting""; ""Minimum Wage""; ""Movie Rating System""

""National High School Graduation Exam""""No Child Left Behind""; ""Non-standard English in Schools""; ""Nuclear Power, U.S. Switch to""; ""Official Language, English as""; ""Oil Dependency, Ending Foreign""; ""Penny, Abolish the""; ""Physical Education, Mandatory""; ""Plastic Bags, Banning""; ""Pledge of Allegiance in Schools""; ""Presidents, Non-native""; ""Puerto Rican Statehood""; ""Rap Music""; ""Restaurants, Ban All-you-can-eat Establishments""; ""Right to Know""; ""School Day, Length of""; ""Schools, Year-round""; ""Second Amendment""; ""Single-sex Schools""

""Smokers, Government Benefits and""""Space Program""; ""Spanish Mandatory in Schools""; ""Sports in Schools""; ""Swimming Pools, Private""; ""Term Limits""; ""Terrorists, Negotiate with""; ""Torture""; ""Trans Fats, Ban""; ""U.N. Headquarters""; ""U.N. Security Council""; ""Video Games""; ""Voting, Mandatory""; ""Wiretaps, Warrantless""; ""Zero Tolerance in Schools""; ""Zoos""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-932716-80-7

1-61770-076-2

OCLC:

929154709