Contest Dates: Sept. 22-Oct. 30Four years ago we ran an experiment we called our Civil Conversation Challenge. By popular request, we’re bringing it back for 2020, this time with some new features. Our overall focus, though, will be the same: What we’ll be looking for are not so much excellent posts by individual students, but civil, productive discussions between students. Four years later, the country’s partisan divide is even deeper, and the classroom challenges are unprecedented. For many teachers, meeting with students to have in-person “civil conversations” at all this fall will be impossible.

Source: New York Times September 21, 2020 23:48 UTC