Moler's Musing

MARCH 10, 2025

A history class sketching the Industrial Revolution might also examine how innovations in machinery affected economic systems and scientific advancements. For instance, sketch how the spoils system benefited Jacksons supporters but also led to corruption. Across disciplines : Connect ideas across subjects.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

School leaders are increasingly turning to organizations like the World Economic Forum and analyzing data on the most in-demand skills for the next five years. Brian Johnsrud The latest World Economic Forum Jobs Report highlights the top skills that will rise in importance by 2027. How is AI changing teaching and learning strategies?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is STEM education in action: Hands-on projects help students develop critical thinking skills while sparking interest in science, technology, engineering and math. Early exposure to STEM education primes students to take advantage of these career opportunities — and the economic benefits that come with them.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action. So we’re joining together with all of our partners on this 4th Teach Truth Day of Action to continue our work to ensure that our students have access and opportunity to honest, accurate, and fully funded education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Unfortunately, many Americans, especially white Americans, have rejected public initiatives to address the growing cultural and economic divides between how we invest in and educate our kids.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization? We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that?

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Across Disciplines: How did technology and economics impact migration? Depth & Complexity: Different Perspectives: What were the benefits and consequences of expansion?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Former California superintendent of the year Devin Vodicka has argued , convincingly, that any test score declines were a result of the emotional and economic hardship the pandemic caused students, not the change in learning mode. The course was optional, and the students earned no high school or college credits.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

” Reboot aims to increase the teaching of critical thinking in schools and by parents at home. Reboot’s mission to promote the teaching of critical thinking highlights a popular buzz phrase in education that can encompass everything from logic skills to the ability to analyze and evaluate information.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Schools are complicit with other societal institutions when it comes to individuals’ economic malaise and the inadequate preparation of our workforce. Our dogged perpetuation of low-level learning environments helps foster economic insecurity and political revolts. The declining economic value of routine cognitive work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2022

That’s why my district is reimagining high schools with a strong focus on helping students become leaders in their own learning and the learning of others — a pathway to future success and economic mobility. I immediately saw my most important job was to address the different way we teach students in these different ZIP codes.

Economics 104

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At the same time, creativity and creative thinking are also in high demand. The World Economic Forum's 2023 Future of Jobs Report highlighted creative thinking as a top skill for the future. For students, this means having AI skills can level the playing field with more seasoned professionals.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

It’s time we got off the sidelines to better explain and market to the public the prodigious value to teaching, innovation and the greater good that we offer. economics, political science, sociology) and the natural and mathematical sciences. dance, film, theater) to the humanities (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Perhaps it should be no surprise that students aren’t achieving more in gifted classrooms when most educators admit they don’t even try to teach advanced material in them. Some argue for the elimination of gifted and talented education altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Our great Midwestern public research universities are quite different, one from another, though together with other public institutions they teach, by far, the greatest number of students and produce a very significant proportion of the important research that is done in the United States. You got your Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

This includes activities that emphasize exploration and cooperation as well as developing critical thinking skills. The United States cannot maintain its status as an economic powerhouse if we fail to focus properly on basic skills. Last summer, I spent time working closely with new and experienced Montessori educators.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied,” said Tony Jackson, vice president for the Center for Global. Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied.

Middle School 108

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By moving through these four phases—See, Think, Me, We—participants engage in a comprehensive thinking process that takes them from initial observation to personal connection and social relevance. Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The future will leave room for human teachers.

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. How MAHG Expanded Czarnecki’s Teaching Czarnecki’s MAHG studies more than prepared her to take on such questions. She also pursues her own research.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

The rapidly changing demands of the workplace and life require individuals who are self-motivated, adaptable, and capable of critical thinking and problem-solving. Students become dependent on teachers for direction and approval, hindering their ability to develop crucial problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

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Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning Psychology Tradition 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

“It’s a clear trend,” said Tom Hilliard, a senior fellow at the Center for an Urban Future, which primarily studies economic growth in New York. The new exams test critical thinking and problem solving, not just rote memorization. “Every state has fewer people obtaining high school equivalencies.

High School 110

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Eastern Kentucky University shut down theater, economics and other majors. That assumes employers don’t want humanities graduates, said Megan Hickerson, who teaches history at Henderson State — one of the programs being cut at the end of this academic year — “and that’s just not true. Credit: Ji Stribling for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2018

According to the Future of Jobs Report by the World Economic Forum, creativity is one of the top three most important skills for future workers, along with complex problem solving and critical thinking. With its tech-infused curriculum, Verizon Innovative Learning is changing the way teachers teach and students learn.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2022

While he continues working on website projects, Seck is now teaching coding to high school students at a skills academy in Stamford. Mohameth Seck, an instructor at the Synchrony Skills Academy, which teaches coding and other tech skills to high school students and older adults. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Next, and perhaps most importantly, the 162 students who made the cut attended a five-day boot camp in which they learned crucial workplace skills such as goal setting, effective communication, teamwork, public speaking, conflict resolution and critical thinking. “It These are also 19th-century skills.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Mary Li-Ling Liang, Director of Education Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles attributed the increase in the number of Taiwanese students attending public schools here, while their parents remain in Taiwan, to parental concerns about their country’s educational system and political future. They’re too relaxed.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

That’s prompted new Janesville Schools Superintendent Steve Pophal to enact a plan to give kids the critical thinking and specialized skills he hopes will help them meet local business needs while avoiding the trap of low-skill, low-wage work that accounts for a growing share of the city’s economy. “A That compares with a 1.6

Pedagogy 111

Pedagogy High School Economics Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2017

Twenty-five years ago, I enrolled in the theatre and dance program where I now teach. My teaching, in response, is strategic. The common wisdom, including in the business and arts fields, is that employers don’t value an arts degree. My colleagues and I would beg to differ. My lessons were piecemeal.

Cultures 75

Cultures Economics Social Science Critical Thinking 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

States start to demand colleges share the data At Ohio Wesleyan University, “career catalysts” have been assigned to “career communities” of students interested variously in fields including economics and business; education and communication; entrepreneurship; humanities and the arts; health; and science, technology, engineering and math.

Humanities 141

Humanities Professional Development Critical Thinking Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The courses employers have been helping to create don’t just teach skills students need to work for Microsoft, Amazon or Google, like the highly specialized training classes that are longtime industry standards — Linux System Administration, for example, or Office 365 Fundamentals. It’s funny how this pendulum swings,” said Eaton. “We

Humanities 105

Humanities History Critical Thinking Teaching 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

I have a hard time convincing students, despite research on my side, that what subject they major in matters far less than they (and their parents) might imagine — and that what employers care about most are transferable skills, like critical thinking, that can be acquired in just about any field of study. The post OPINION: Do U.S.

Economics 86

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The state is making a sizable investment in these schools, with an eye toward fueling its economic engines by teaching students how to play a role in high-need, growing fields like advanced manufacturing and health services. Just over 18 percent of the school’s students are economically disadvantaged. Xerras said afterward.).

High School 92

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And in 2001, the engineering accreditation body ABET added a new criterion so as to ensure that students get “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.”. And that alone will unleash critical thinking and innovation.

Humanities 90

Humanities Social Science Sociology Anthropology 90

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

Instead, we need to shift our focus to higher-order thinking skills. It’s crucial that we teach students how to learn, how to think critically, and how to use content as a vehicle for problem-solving. The answer, quite simply, is no. Exams, in particular, only measure what a student remembers on that particular day.

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