Debate Resource: Infrastructure vs Education

This House would prioritize infrastructure over education is a classic model based debate centering around whether it’s more important to build roads, homes, and facilities creating immediate jobs or focus on improving education for the masses. This powerpoint outlines the key issues such as the cycle of poverty, unemployment, and foreign investment while also highlighting strategies to attack and defend this topic. This forms the debate shell to give to your students and then, have them go and debate it.
The learning objectives are:
The students will differentiate between the various issues involved in a debate between infrastructure and education.
The students will explain a plan of action to solve the problems of infrastructure and education.