Human Capital v Seed People

Proposition

Public school policies, including the curriculum, methods of instruction, and testing should be determined by human capital arguments and the economic goal of growing the economy and educating students for employment.  Such human capital arguments are currently providing a justification for teacher deskilling, high stakes testing, and the expansion and funding of preschool education to improve children’s chances for employment.

Readings:

Teams

Human Capital | Affirm Seed People | Negate Judges
 CJ

Lindsay

Chloe

Erin

Janice

 Michelle

Ali

Kelly

Marv

Will

 Mike

Franki

Danielle

Kala

Format of the Debate

Team policy debate is a popular format for debating.  The proposition side is called the Affirmative or Aff, and the opposition side is called the Negative or Neg.  Each side is a team composed of four (4) debaters, so that there are eight (8) people participating in the debate (not including the judges).*

This round of team policy debate will consist of eight (8) speeches.  The first four speeches are called constructive speeches, because the teams are perceived as presenting their arguments during these speeches.  The next two speeches are referred to as rebuttals, because teams are to critique and/or defend arguments that have already been made.  The last two speeches are called closings, because the teams summarize their respective positions.  Here is a table of the eight speeches and their time limits:

Speech: 1AC 1NC 2AC 2NC Review NR AR NCL ACL
Time: 6 min. 6 min. 6 min. 6 min. 12 min. 6 min. 6 min. 6 min. 6 min.

(A = Affirmative, N  =  Negative, C  =  Constructive, R  =  Rebuttal, CL  =  Closing.)

Two things are of interest in this structure.  First, the affirmative team both begins and ends the debate.  Second, the negative team has two speeches in a row:  the first negative rebuttal (1NR) immediately follows the second negative constructive (2NC).

Debate Judging Rubric

Please evaluate each argument on a four point scale where 4 is the highest. (Follow this link to download this rubric).

____Affirmative Constructive I | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and supported rhetorically, with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

 ____Negative Constructive I | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and supported rhetorically, with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

 ____Affirmative Constructive II| Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and supported rhetorically, with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

 ____Negative Constructive II | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and supported rhetorically, with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

____Negative Rebuttal | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, effective, supported rhetorically, and with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

 ____Affirmative Rebuttal | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, effective, supported rhetorically, and with facts, statistics and/or examples. Comments:

 ____Negative Closing | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and effectively summarizes the team’s position. Comments:

 ____Affirmative Closing | Argument is clear, factual, well organized, relevant, and effectively summarizes the team’s position. Comments:

* Formats of Debate | http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/debformats.html