Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Introduction: Questions and Power -- Part I: Culture: Questions or Answers? -- 1: Inquiry Is Risky, Resilience Is the Reward, and Other Lessons from Childhood -- Wisdom from the Crib -- Inquiry Builds Resilience -- Our National Motivations Matter -- 2: Ideological Segregation by Click and by Clique -- News We Can Believe (In) -- Don't Know, Don't Ask -- Ideological Polarization Online -- Transcending Ideological Segregation Through Deliberation -- 3: Consuming Opinion -- A Different Kind of Talk Show Host -- A Different Kind of Media Today -- 4: In Google We Trust -- Information Drive-by and the Google Generation -- "You Have to Read It" -- Yahoo! - One Authority Young People Don't Question -- Leaving Room for Observation -- Part II: Schools: Citizens or Consumers? -- Financial Literacy in the Schools -- 5: The Three Rs and a Why -- The Civic Function of Schools -- The State of Civics Knowledge -- The Decline of Civics as a Priority -- 6: No Piggy Bank Left Behind -- A Dream of Financial Literacy - Who's Behind It? -- One Person's Test Question Is Another Person's Push Poll -- So, Who Gains? -- 7: Questioning the System, or Beating It? -- Does It Even Work? -- Other Models: Different Approach, Same Flaw -- 8: The Marxist, Anti-American Conspiracy to Convert Young People to Engaged Citizenship -- Social Justice in the Schools -- Trusting Young People to Question -- Part III: Politics: Engaged or Connected? -- 9: Black and White and Dead All Over -- Snacking on the News -- The Limitations of Do-It-Yourself News -- Using Newspapers as a Tool for Inquiry -- 10: Who's Afraid of Virginia Youth? -- When the Answers Aren't in the Room -- "Cause" and Effect -- Power Precedes Policy -- Training, Creativity, and Youth Civic Engagement -- 11: Lights, Camera, Debate! -- The Role of the Presidential Debates.

The Role of the Questioner -- Control of the Process -- Candidates Shouldn't Fear Questioning -- Conclusion: A Call for Slow Democracy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the Author -- About Berrett-Koehler Publishers -- Be Connected.