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The official 2012 campaign season begins in a few weeks. Facts on File sent out a reminder.

As the 2012 election year nears, we want to remind you of Issues and Controversies invaluable election-related content. Don't forget to direct your students and patrons to the comprehensive background on all presidential races since 1996--including lengthy articles about the candidates' views on major campaign issues, party platforms, excerpts from convention speeches, and more.

Plus, our ongoing in-depth coverage of key 2012 campaign issues will culminate in a full-scale examination of the entire presidential race, including maps, charts, and discussion questions, which will be published a few weeks before the November 2012 election.

Issues and Controversies is used by our English classes when they are researching their argumentative, persuasive, pro&con paper. Issues and Controversies has a quick overview of both sides of a topic.

Go to the section under Curriculum Tools, Student tools, select the More link.
On this screen Select Issues Pro and Con in the Tools for Students box.
Now you can scroll through the list or use the alphabetical tool to hop to your topic.

In three sentences they give you both sides of a topic. It is a very handy way to see that, yes, there could be another side to this subject.

Keep up with current issues by using Facts.Com, Issues and Controversies!


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