Even when certain words or topics are prohibited by the state, educators can still cultivate students’ motivation and skills ...

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).

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 ...

As an educator, I have always been fascinated by my students’ innate curiosity. From an early age, they have an insatiable desire to learn. Anyone who spends time around young children will find ...

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 ...

General education programs are a perennial source of consternation for faculty, administrators and students alike. The challenges, from one institution to another and from one decade to another, read ...

AI, in other words, did not erode critical thinking; it exposed how poorly we have been teaching it.

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.

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.