Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Education 
Teaching American History
MARCH 11, 2025
Understanding the Reality of Public Education During her more than twenty years teaching government at the general and AP levels, Messick has certainly seen changes. Since the disruption of schooling during COVID, shes also spent time catching students up on critical thinking skills. Some of them encourage her.
ED Surge
MARCH 26, 2024
When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says.
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Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 22, 2023
To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea. Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 15, 2022
Middle school science teachers matter: Early adolescence is a time of huge cognitive change and a critical time to build students’ understanding of and enthusiasm for science, according to the National Science Teaching Association. Department of Education. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 23, 2020
How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy.
Psych Learning Curve
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe? However, these are often reserved for contrived examples that are considered safe for the classroom.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 3, 2024
But how can teens learn to value others’ perspectives when student journalists are barred from reporting on sensitive topics in their own communities? Censorship for the purpose of image upkeep is antithetical to good journalism education and, more broadly, to democracy. Related: Become a lifelong learner.
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