Chicago Debate Commission

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• The mission of the Chicago Debate Commission is to advance the academic achievement, life success, and civic skills of urban youth through academic debate. Our core programming competitive debate: For 16 years, we have partnered with Chicago Public Schools to make debate possible and effective for Chicago students. In FY13, 1300 Chicago students from 70 schools participated in the competitive Chicago Debate League. Debate is a proven strategy to improve Chicago youth's graduation rates, grades and ACT scores. Our students -- most of them low-income minorities -- gain powerful skills in critical thinking, research, reading, use of evidence, and argumentation through debate. They gain college-readiness skills, become inspired to attend college and engage in civic discourse, and obtain a vision for their futures, all through debate. Our students spend an average of 165 hours per year on this rigorous academic activity; our most engaged high school students spend over 400 hours per year on debate. Non-competitive curricular debate: The CDC's new and innovative professional development program brings the benefits of academic debate to the classroom, by training teachers to use debate and argumentation to more effectively teach their core curricula. We provide teachers with the tools to teach students key skills of effective public discourse researching and evaluating evidence, carefully analyzing complex ideas, and articulating and refuting claims thoughtfully.
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  Headquarters:200 S Michigan Ave , Chicago, Illinois, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 312-427-0524

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  Website: https://www.chicagodebateleague.org

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  Employees:19

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Chicago Debate Commission

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• |  NAICS Code: 611420  |

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