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The Record, a newspaper for the Columbia Community, recently featured our program in its most recent issue.  The online version also features this video, which provides another rich perspective on our programming, and an opportunity to hear the impressions of our students.

CSS is in the News again! This time our unique one-in-the-nation 7 year philosophy program was profiled by Art McFarland, ABC news education correspondent. The piece covered the 7th grade Argument skills course led by Dr. Deanna Kuhn and her graduate students (Teachers College, Columbia University) and followed our middle school sophomore students through the cycle of exploration of the subject, online dialogue, and argumentation showdown. Students were then asked what they thought they had learned from the program. Seventh grader, Zac Levine  (House of Carson) commented " I've learned to argue with reasons, this helps me a lot, specially with my mom, I can argue better with her and I don't get angry." Overall more than a dozen students were interviewed. CSS Philosophy program is of national note. As the nations only 7 year required philosophy program, it has received considerable attention in such places as the World Philosophy for Children conference in London; Education Week (the nations preeminent academic newspaper). The Philosophy program has been the subject of several research articles and our resident Philosopher has published two of his books on Philosophy for Children while a faculty at CSS. Through the combination of an extraordinary core program, its diverse electives and creative arts offerings, and it unique philosophy and engineering programs CSS students are gaining intellectual skills that few schools emphasize. CSS unique philosophy program is an example innovative education at its best.