Dialogue Across Divides
With Mismatch, students talk to other students across the country, inspiring them to connect beyond their immediate world and build a healthy democracy - without leaving the classroom.
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Dialogue is essential to democracy. With Mismatch, students learn to humanize the “other.”
92%
of students from the Mismatch pilot reported better understanding the other perspective or the other person after just one conversation.
99%
of students found the conversation somewhat or extremely valuable.
From 2017 Mismatch pilot
I’m overhearing some of the conversations … awesome! This is civil discourse!!
mismatch (n.) - A virtual dialogue between students that are the political, racial, geographical, and socio-economic opposite of another.
![Student using Mismatch](https://mismatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/student-using-mismatch-1.png)
Build a better world one conversation at a time.