A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on ...

Critical thinking is the highly prized, hard-to-master process of rigorously analyzing disparate data, patterns and observations using a mix of intellectual discipline, experience and logically sound ...

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