Over the course of his 38-year career as a high school social studies teacher, Ed Cabrera has led passionate student discussions through 10 presidential elections, impeachments, 9/11, controversial wars, presidential assassination attempts, all while maintaining political neutrality.

In this episode Ed discusses his guidelines for leading passionate classroom discussions on controversial topics.

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