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).

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

As an educator, I firmly believe that nurturing the critical thinking skills of the students is one of the most important aspects of what teachers do. Critical thinking has been cited as allowing ...

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 ...

Students’ increasing critical thinking and inventiveness will help them satisfy the expectations of an ever-changing environment. These skills enable students to approach problems with original ideas, ...

Weston first-graders honored for critical thinking skills were, front row, Lillian Smith, Henry Sells and Grayson Taylor; back row, Jackson Kingsbury, Kyler Sylvestre, Lincoln Sowder and Aria Mann.

Critical thinking is one of the top-requested skills employers look for in job applicants, but is higher ed doing enough to help students develop this skill? Fifty-nine percent of surveyed adults ages ...

Critical thinking encompasses problem-solving and decision- making through an objective analysis and evaluation of the circumstances. It also involves reasoning and active enquiry to draw conclusions.

Does using technology in school actually help improve students’ thinking skills? Or hurt them? That’s the question the Reboot Foundation, a nonprofit, asked in a new report examining the impact of ...

Students must be equipped not with skills that algorithms will inevitably master, but with the capacity to think, question, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways teachers can help students combat “fake news” and develop information-literacy skills? Information literacy has always been an important skill, ...