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New Video Series!
Opposing Viewpoints Live Radio for Television

This exclusive new series uses the immediacy of video to bring today's most critical and controversial issues to the classroom. Using stimulating debates filmed live in the radio studio and edited for video and television broadcast, Opposing Viewpoints Live Radio for Television is a unique approach to learning.

Each video — enhanced with ancillary materials — helps teachers keep students focused on analyzing the speakers. Materials include:

Unbiased background information to allow students to review the debater's arguments, and assess speakers' credentials, argumentation techniques, and information.
High-interest video format
Topics are up-to-date and relevant to students
Opposing Viewpoints trademark assures quality debate and critical thinking assessment
Ancillary materials for concrete suggestions and evaluative tools in presenting controversial issues in the classroom

View a fact sheet about the videos [pdf, 225 KB].

To order video from catalog, click on title.

Is Compromising Civil Rights Justified in the War on Terrorism?
1st edition 30 minutes TRT. 2002. Order # 189600

This video features Dr. Steve Albrecht, President, Baron Center, Inc. San Diego and Dale Kelly Bankhead, Public Affairs Director, American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties debating whether methods used by government agencies to curb terrorism — including surveillance techniques and detention of potential terrorists — violate Americans' civil rights and whether such violation is justified.

Download teacher's guide [pdf, 186 KB].
Download background guide [pdf, 136 KB].

Is the Death Penalty Justified?
1st edition 30 minutes TRT. 2002. Order # 189601

James Lambert, author, Host "Night Lights" and Timothy Spann, Coordinator Amnesty International Southern California take on whether the death penalty should be used to punish heinous crimes. Is the death penalty a deterrent? Is it justified on moral, or even economic grounds?

Download teacher's guide [pdf, 125 KB].
Download background guide [pdf, 146 KB].

Is Cloning Ethical?
1st edition 30 minutes TRT. 2002. Order # 189597

Speakers Dr. Larry Goldstein, UCSD Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Bruno J. Leone, Professor of European Intellectual History, SDSU, Author/Lecturer on Cloning and Creationism vs Evolution take on the issue of cloning in this stimulating debate. Can science be trusted to behave ethically? Is cloning inherently bad?

Download teacher's guide [pdf, 161 KB].
Download background guide [pdf, 145 KB].

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