A few years back, I posted a piece on this page about how difficult it can be to accurately and sufficiently describe what critical thinking (CT) is. Within, I presented a number of attempts made in ...

Students raise their hands to answer a teacher's question at the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, part of a network of public middle schools that is becoming a model for educating poor children. KIPP ...

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 ...

Peter Ellerton is affiliated with the Rationalist Society of Australia. Read about the event elsewhere and it turns out the athlete was also beaten by thousands of people and it was a participation ...

Creative and critical thinking often get ‘lumped together’ as buzzwords within the realm of educational outcomes and, as a result, people often try to draw links between the two. While they may share ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is critical thinking and how can we integrate it into the classroom? This three-part series will explore what critical thinking is, if it can be specifically ...

Bangladesh routinely laments the absence of critical thinking among its graduates, yet rarely confronts the systemic failures that prevent its development. From rote-driven primary schooling to theory ...

Cultivating critical thinking skills should be a top priority for any business that wants to succeed in today’s complex and rapidly changing world. According to the World Economic Forum, “analytical ...