{"id":8496,"date":"2018-06-19T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2018-06-19T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:22:28","slug":"8496","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/19\/8496\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Cities mayors judged Augsburg&#8217;s annual Great Education Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8498\" style=\"width: 272px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/ows_152839025883174.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8498 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/ows_152839025883174-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Mayors Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter at the debate discuss the finer points of civil debate.\" width=\"272\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/ows_152839025883174-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2018\/06\/ows_152839025883174.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayors Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter at the debate. Photo by Andy Mannix &#8211; Star Tribune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter, the new mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, served as judges June 7 at the Minnesota Urban Debate League\u2019s Great Education Debate at Augsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Augsburg&#8217;s urban debate league\u00a0program provides resources and programming to support\u00a0competitive academic debate at Twin Cities high schools and middle schools. The goal is\u00a0to empower students through competitive academic debate to become engaged learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens who are effective advocates for themselves and their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">At the debate, four students presented arguments on the topic of investing in career technical education as an alternative to four-year college degrees. Both Frey and Carter gave tips and feedback to the participants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">\u201cYou have mastered a skill that has largely been lost in American society, which is the ability to debate respectfully,\u201d Frey told the students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/twin-cities-new-mayors-offer-advice-to-young-debaters\/484863591\/\">See full story on the <em>Star Tribune<\/em> page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text_Body\">Learn more about the Minnesota Urban Debate League <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urbandebateleague\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Frey and Melvin Carter, the new mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, served as judges June 7 at the Minnesota Urban Debate League\u2019s Great Education Debate at Augsburg. Augsburg&#8217;s urban debate league\u00a0program provides resources and programming to support\u00a0competitive academic debate at Twin Cities high schools and middle schools. The goal is\u00a0to empower students through &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}