Out of all the skills today’s students need to develop, critical thinking is perhaps the most important. Critical thinking not only helps students make stronger connections to information they learn ...
Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group).
When I first began focusing on the development of student critical thinking skills in the early 1990s, I discussed ideas for a research project with the partner of a CPA firm. I recall being quite ...
Two weeks into our 11th-grade American Revolution project, I walked over to Sofia’s group and sighed. The students were deep into a research rabbit hole about a yellow fever outbreak. The goal was to ...
Speech and debate programs play a vital role in shaping confident, articulate, and thoughtful students. In today’s fast-changing world, the ability to communicate ideas clearly and think ...
Even when certain words or topics are prohibited by the state, educators can still cultivate students’ motivation and skills to recognize, analyze, and challenge injustice.
As AI reshapes work and learning, schools must emphasize skills machines can’t replicate — critical thinking, judgment, and persuasion.
Students deserve an education that prepares them for the world they’re entering, not the old one our current system was ...
Concerned that high schoolers aren’t learning enough critical thinking and problem solving, the education nonprofit and assessment developer Council for Aid to Education Inc. (CAE) has updated its ...
One of the defining features of human evolution is the emergent capacity of human beings to think about thinking. The ability to think about thinking is often described as a metacognitive skill.