A new Reboot paper, Teaching Critical Thinking in K-12: When There’s A Will But Not Always A Way, examines the U.S. Department of Education’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP ...

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).

Teaching critical thinking skills is as much about practice as it is instruction. In a classroom, that can look like adopting a competency-based curriculum, adding role-playing activities, or ...

Many parents shy away from this phrase, but both the former first lady—and plenty of psychology research–say it helps kids build critical thinking skills and empathy.

Critical thinking requires us not to passively accept everything we read, hear and see but rather to question, evaluate and make judgments. Here’s what that might look like in practice.

We don’t often think about the importance of asking questions or teaching that skill to our children, but a study done at Harvard University shows asking questions helps with critical thinking skills ...

When people demand that schools teach critical thinking, it’s not always clear what they mean. Some might consider critical thinking a trait or capacity that teachers can encourage, like ...

Vero Beach, Florida / Syndication Cloud / July 8, 2025 / Christ Church Academy As education continues to evolve to meet the fast-moving demands of today’s world, many teachers and families are ...

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Whodunit?: Detective Stories I had just finished reading one of Dorothy ...