Diane Ravitch shows us one reason innovation in education has proved to be so elusive over the past century. In her op-ed this week, she takes the advocates of 21st Century Skills to task for their ...

Critical thinking is useful in just about every sphere of life you can think of, but it’s especially important for entrepreneurs. It prevents you from chasing every rainbow or going down dead ends.

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 ...

“We aren’t teaching students how to think critically!” So goes the exasperated lament you have probably heard and possibly uttered. The thing is, that’s a crazy hard thing to do. It may seem like a ...

Attention spans are getting shorter in part due to the proliferation of new media, including the internet, email and texting. That is one conclusion that Maggie Jackson draws in her 2008 book, ...

Critical thinking is clear thinking that's based on reason, rather than on emotion. Running a small business can be a deeply personal endeavor, a way to channel a passion or to live out a dream. But ...

Ask “what role should emotions play in critical thinking?” and you get an unsurprising response from almost everywhere: They shouldn’t. This response comes from a wide variety of sources ranging from ...

Post by Jeffrey A. Greene (@JeffGreeneUNC) & Brian M. Cartiff (@RedHawkTarheel), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Internet’s superabundance of information (Lankshear et al., 2000) has ...

Someone asked me the other day how they can best go about identifying AI-generated media. "I don’t know" was my honest answer. To be completely truthful, I’m not even sure I can. With that, I am ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about critical thinking in education. For children, the internet presents enormous opportunities. My daughter, for ...

The many fractious factions in the American education wars fight over standardized tests, teacher pay and whether we are dumber than India and China or much, much dumber than India and China. But they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Humans are wired by nature to search for patterns. If your bike broke on the way to the office, ...