Critical thinking too often falls by the wayside in schools because there is a lack of consensus about how to teach it, and even what critical thinking is. One of the age-old goals of education is ...

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 ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is critical thinking and how can we integrate it into the classroom? Part One ‘s guests were Dara Laws Savage, Patrick Brown, Meg Riordan, Ph.D., and Dr. PJ ...

Before the school day starts, many kids have scrolled past dozens of opinions and claims, and once they arrive at school, they’ll hear classmates discussing what they saw online. Children need strong ...

Thinking critically means considering other perspectives and analyzing facts from different sources. Good critical thinking skills can help you avoid generalizations and decisions you later regret. To ...

When I was much younger, my mother would say, "Practice makes perfect." Of course, this simplified phrasing—used to motivate impressionable young minds—wasn’t entirely factual, but it still made a ...