2017 Critical Thinking Humanities 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 9, 2019
Critical thinking is all the rage in education. Some argue that critical thinking should be the primary purpose of education and one of the most important skills to have in the 21st century, with advanced machines and algorithms replacing manual and repetitive labor. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2022
Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 10, 2019
Leave this field empty if you're human: “We see a lot of spending everywhere on tablets, computers, counting the ratio of computers per student,” said Helen Lee Bouygues, who founded the Reboot Foundation in 2018. . ” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2018
A so-called collaborative robot, programmed to work with humans at the Prent Corporation, a packaging company, it looked cute, not intimidating. percent higher in 2017 than in 2010 , the year Governor Scott Walker won office and began pushing legislation to hobble unions and cut funding for schools. JANESVILLE, Wis. —
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Leave this field empty if you're human: “Playing a game of insults, that’s all well and good,” said Jennifer Dean, an educational consultant and former English teacher who has a Ph.D ” Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 18, 2018
Leave this field empty if you're human: Social studies is typically considered the most suitable subject area for developing citizenship skills and knowledge. This requires skills of political critique, skepticism, critical thinking, consideration of alternatives, weighing of evidence and recognition of complexity.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore waits to be introduced to speak about the race against his Democratic opponent Doug on December 12, 2017 in Montgomery, Alabama. Chalking up voting behavior as purely a function of partisan politics and not a reflection of critical thinking is a mistake. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
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