including coach stipends, debate materials, and transportation to tournaments. Local debate programs have spawned other methods to integrate debate into their communities. Urban debate has expanded to include debate across the curriculum (as a classroom learning tool), public debates (partnering with community-based organizations), debates in prisons, and middle school competitions. UDLs have demonstrated a very high level of cost-effectiveness, averaging less than $650 per student for a year's involvement in a program that researchers and media observers have widely recognized as unusually intensive in its academic focus, relative to other after-school programs. References External links National Association for Urban Debate Leagues A great demo debate video for novices Free policy debate video lectures from the Georgia Forensics Daily Dartmouth College's beginner workshop website offers free curriculum, lectures, and evidence for policy debaters Dartmouth College's advanced camp who was the first to offer a complete and free behind the scenes look at every day of the camp, including evidence, notes from discussions, and video lectures Urban debate leagues Student debating societies Youth organizations based in the United States