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How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

MindShift

Wunn noticed that debaters picked up crucial skills that colleges and businesses alike said they were looking for in young people, like the ability to collaborate with team members and think critically about a topic—often this happened not in the library but on their feet, responding to an opponent during a debate.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Thiel, who lamented women’s suffrage in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute, has been well-known in Silicon Valley as a libertarian, and some observers struggled to explain why Thiel would back an authoritarian for president. Thiel spoke at the Republican Party Convention, the first gay man to take the main stage at that event.