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Artificial Intelligence (AI): beneficial or threat to society

SIRS Issues Researcher

Benefits and Risks of AI

Risks/threats

Benefits of AI

Additional benefits of AI

Additional risks of AI

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Book banning

SIRS Issues Researcher

Pros/cons

Why parents shouldn’t ban books

Why parents should be able to ban books

Parents’ role in book bans

The right to read

 

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DC statehood

SIRS Issues Researcher

Why DC should be a state

DC statehood: fight for racial justice

Against DC statehood

Pros and Cons of DC statehood

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Puerto Rico statehood

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Why Puerto Rico should have statehood

Puerto Rico becoming a state

Puerto Rico should not become a state

Puerto Rico should be independent

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Electoral college abolishment

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Benefits of electoral college

Preserve the electoral college

What’s wrong with the electoral college

Cons of electoral college

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Mandated year of service after students graduate high school

Need for a year of service

Maryland launches year of service program

Pros and Cons of Mandatory service

Cons of mandatory service

 
Social Media

SIRS Issues Researcher

Negative effects of social media

Social media Pros and Cons

Benefits and harms of social media

Benefits of social media

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Year round schooling

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ChildParenting:YearRound School 

CDE:Year-round Guide

Scholastic on Year Round Schools

Pros and Cons of Year Round Schools

U.S. News Year Round Schools

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Year-Round Schools

 

 

Animal Cruelty: Should animals be used for product testing?

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PETA

NAVS

National Academy of Science

Lonestar College

Humane Society of America

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College for everyone

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NYTimes

Great Schools: College 

Education Week

Pros and Cons of college right after high school

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Death Penalty (capital punishment)

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http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/arguments/contents.htm

Huffington Post:Why We Need To Kill The Death Penalty

CNN opinions:Death Penalty

Death Penalty Information Center

Equal Justice Initiative

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Driving age for teens   

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Ehow:ProCons of Driving age

Insurance Journal

Driving ages in various states

Pros and Cons of changing the driving age

More Pros and Cons

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Downloading from the internet

SIRS Issues Researcher

Music Piracy Pro/Con

Piracy

 

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Plagiarism Punishment

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Plagiarism Viewpoint Inside Higher Ed

Plagiarism

Why is Plagiarism Bad

College - Why is Plagiarism Not worth the Risk

Plagiarism - Why it Matters

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Student Privacy: Will Public Surveillance Make You Safer or Invade your Privacy? 

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Surveillance Self-Defense

ACLU - Student's Rights to Privacy

Public Source - Student Surveillance

Surveillance Technology

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Dress code in schools

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NEAToday Dress Code Gender Bias

CNN School Dress Code Issues

LA Times

Why Dress Codes are often unfair

Dress code challenges

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dress code

school uniforms

School uniforms

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Great Schools: School Uniforms

Washington Post: School Uniforms effects on Poor/Homeless

Britannica - Pros and Cons of School Uniforms

Time for Kids- Should Kids Wear Uniforms to School?

More Pros and Cons of School Uniforms

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Home schooling   

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Edvocate - Advantages and Disadvantages of homeschooling

Education Corner

Pros and Cons

Two sides of Homeschooling

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Longer school day

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Seattle Times: Longer School Day

Education: School Day Debate

NEA 9 to 5 day

Atlantic: Kids Who Spend All Day At School

Pros and Cons of longer school day

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Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports

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Performance Enhancing Drugs Fast Facts

The Price of Gold: Doping and Professional Athletes

Doping Sports Pro & Con

Doping in Sports - Cheating or Leveling of the Playing Field?

Dangers of Performance Enhancing drugs

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Other terms: 

Performance Enhancing Drugs

Athletes, Drug Use

 

 Single gender classes / school

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Education World

The Atlantic: Controversy over all girls ed

The Guardian - Should boys and girls be taught separately in schools?

Pros and Cons of single gender schools

 

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Single-Sex Schools & Classrooms)

 

Right To Health Care

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Washington Times: Health Care is Not a Right

US National Library of Medicine

New Yorker:Is Health Care a Right? 

ABC News: US Health Care Analysis

Health Care as a Human Right

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"Under God" in Pledge of Allegiance

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Constitution Center: Using Under God in the Pledge

Huffington Post Opinion

Legal Challenges to the Pledge of Allegiance

Britannica - Pros and Cons

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Pledge of Allegiance

Under God

Church and State

Gun Control 

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Britannica - Pros and Cons of Gun Control

The Gun Control Debate

Time:Gun Control Fight Isn't About Guns

More on Gun Control

 

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