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 ...

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 ...

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.

Editor’s note: The intersections of art and education are often overlooked. The Seattle Times will periodically publish pieces by young people in Washington about their perspectives on these subjects.

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