Foreword

John Sexton

Preface

Melissa Maxcy Wade

Acknowledgements

An Introduction to Classroom Debate: A Tool for Educating Minds and Hearts

Karyl A. Davis, M. Leslie Wade Zorwick, James Roland, and Melissa Maxcy Wade

1. Take No Prisoners: The Role of Debate in a Liberatory Education

Brittney Cooper

2. Resolved: Debate Disrupts the School to Prison Pipeline

Catherine Beane

3. Evaluating Contradictory Evidence

Jon Bruschke

4. Making Words Matter: Critical Literacy, Debate, and a Pedagogy of Dialogue

Susan Cridland-Hughes

5. Discerning the Value of Information in the Digital Age

Gordon Stables

6. Engendering Academic Success: Debate as a School Engagement Strategy

Carol Winkler

7. Using Debate to Improve Scientific Reasoning

Freddi-Jo Eisenberg Bruschke

8. Critical Thinking through Debate: Skills, Dispositions, and Teaching Strategies

W. Patrick Wade

9. Using Debate to Develop Perspective Taking and Social Skills

M. Leslie Wade Zorwick

10. Creating Hospitable Communities: Remembering the Emanuel 9 as We Foster a Culture of Humility and Debate

Ed Lee and Ajay Nair

Appendices

James Roland

Contributors