Kate Shuster

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Kate Shuster holds a Ph.D. in Educational Studies from Claremont Graduate University. She is the Director of Claremont McKenna College’s Middle School Public Debate Program (MSPDP), the world’s largest program for debating in the middle grades. She has written 10 books on argument and debate instruction, and is currently the coach of the U.S. national high school debate team. She maintains the MSPDP website at www.middleschooldebate.com.


Pages authored by Kate Shuster

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Teaching the Movement at Whitman College Walla Walla, Wash. is three plane flights, a few thousand miles and a climactic shift from Montgomery, Ala. As our recent report Teaching the...
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Toward a More Civil Discourse There is a pressing need to change the tenor of public debate from shouts and slurs to something more reasoned and effective. But it is difficult for...