Les Lynn is the founder and chief of Argument-Centered Education, established in 2013. ACE is working with the Chicago Public Schools Office of Teaching and Learning, helping it “debatify” its curricular offerings to its more than 600 schools. ACE is also working in an intensive, school-embedded way with more than 300 teachers from fourteen middle and high schools in Chicago and its suburbs, Northwest Indiana, and New York City.

Dr. Gerald Graff is a founding adviser and consultant to Argument-Centered Education. Gerald Graff is one of his generation’s most influential commentators on education, not only as a historian and theorist, but also through his wide impact on the classroom practice... 

Dr. Cathy Birkenstein, also a founding adviser and consultant to Argument-Centered Education, is the co-author with Gerald Graff of the best-selling textbook, They Say/I Say, which also has a version with readings co-written with Graff and Russel Durst, and a version...

Yanelly Villegas, project coordinator, obtained her B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Communication, from Northern Illinois University. She is currently working on her M.A. in Communication, also from NIU. Yanelly graduated from Kelvyn Park H.S. in Chicago Public...