The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In September 2019 ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm the author of "Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students," and I write about ...

Imagine this scenario: a widely shared article made the rounds online. Thousands reposted it. Professionals quoted it in meetings. Students cited it in assignments. Weeks later, it was revealed that ...

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

GIS map overlaid with U.S. population density in 1930 for a project at Lehigh University. Purple dots indicate correspondence issued by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Computational thinking is one of the ...

A few years ago, in an EdTechTeacher workshop, a teacher made a comment that stuck with me: “I want my students to be able to sit with a problem.” This middle school science teacher found herself ...

Critical thinking is the act of analyzing a subject or a situation and forming a judgment based on that analysis. Nearly everybody uses some form of critical thinking in day-to-day life, which often ...

In all of my classes, we discuss the importance of critical thinking to the good life and the good society. Most of the courses I teach are in the field of ethics. We discuss human nature, human ...