🏛️ CER Debate Claim Sprint

Using the city council video notes and a briefing packet with city data, teams choose one policy stance on a live issue such as a corrective tax, subsidy shift, labor regulation, or business tax change. The instructor gives a just-in-time mini-model of a college-level Claim-Evidence-Reasoning structure that must explicitly address tradeoffs, externalities, tax incidence, elasticity, and possible monopsony effects. Teams build a one-page debate brief with a claim, 3 evidence points from the packet, 1 counterargument with rebuttal, and an evidence log that separates confirming from disconfirming evidence. Students then give feedback to 2 peers, receive feedback, revise, and submit an individual 150-200 word position statement naming the additional evidence they still need.