Parents are growing increasingly concerned about the prevalence of technology in classrooms, and the negative side effects ...

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 ...

Opportunities for student-led discussions help students hone their listening, speaking, and critical thinking 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).

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 ...

Research and practice over the past several decades have revealed that a truly knowledge-rich science curriculum encompasses ...

Achievement discrepancies among U.S. students remain persistent and troubling–despite decades of targeted interventions and whole-school improvement programs. To make real gains, teachers need to ...

Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles to help you explore student thinking, and how critical thinking is taught and learned, to enable you to better help your students thrive in ...

For decades—for centuries, in fact—students have been listening to lectures, reading books and taking exams. But this traditional mode of instruction is becoming ever more inadequate as a method of ...

The recent article by Gabriel Paquette, “Can Higher Ed Save Itself?” (The Chronicle Review, March 4), lays out, in perhaps excruciating detail for anyone who values it, the numerous external ...

A strong support system helps students develop emotional resilience, manage stress, build confidence, and gain the well-being ...