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Over the 25/26 school year, the Centre for Responsible Debate’s high school workshops engaged with more than 100 pupils about the nature of debate and how to find common purpose even when we disagree.

In December, I had the privilege of visiting Adam Law’s classroom in a local high school to see some of our learning resources in action, and to pilot a new workshop format for high school students.

An Analysis of Current Practice in the Sector and its Interaction with the Changing Law. You can download our report here, for free. Just put your email address in and we will send it to you.

Discussion of controversial issues often fails to yield a resolution, and it can also leave people feeling divided and angry or hurt over what the other people have said. It doesn’t help that media coverage of public debates often highlights the contributions that are most rage-inducing, funny, or extreme. But discussing controversial issues doesn’t have…