Volume:82
Num:6
This is a time of extraordinary polarization and lack of civility in our national political discourse. As social studies educators, it is part of our mission to teach students how to evaluate different perspectives on important issues and how to discuss them with civility and respect. In 2016, a survey of NCSS members ranked teaching about controversial issues first among the special topics that they would like to see covered in Social Education. This issue includes a special section on that subject whose guest editor, Diana E. Hess, is an expert on the discussion of controversies in the classroom.
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