Howard has taken advocacy skills fostered in debate and put them to use outside the classroom to enact real change in his community.

Argument Timer eliminates the need for one person to keep time. Again, its “set it and forget it” design makes this possible. Fewer people needed to hold a practice means more practice time.

But you can also participate in virtual arguments to sharpen your skills. The Test Your Argument page on the BBC’s website pits you against virtual participants in a specific argument, and ...

This work sought to obtain experimental evidence to corroborate cross-sectional patterns of development in argument skills and to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention designed to foster ...