Critical Thinking High School Learning Science 
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 6, 2016
Since our school was small, there was a chance you could even have him multiple times before moving up to the high school. What separated Mr. South from his peers was his passion for helping students learn and love the sciences. He didn’t teach science. We learned science.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 28, 2020
What stands out for me is how readers remain interested in basic research into how kids learn, from reading to critical thinking to collaborating with peers. The schools that develop soft skills produced students with higher grades, fewer absences and fewer disciplinary problems and arrests in high school.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 8, 2021
6th grade science. High school Advanced Placement. Environmental Science Curriculum. Project-based learning, a popular practice that uses lots of poster boards and student presentations, is billed as an antidote to boring classrooms where teachers drone on. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Curriculum.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
She and a colleague published a journal article about their experience last year, called “ TikTok: An Emergent Opportunity for Teaching and Learning Science Communication Online. ” “It is the ethical responsibility of researchers to disseminate findings with the public in a timely way,” the paper concludes. “As
The Hechinger Report
JULY 10, 2018
Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. It provides real life applications for reading and math and develops critical thinking skills that help students solve problems in other subjects. But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 2, 2023
She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” She envisions asking her students to document the resources like green space and trash bins available in their community, and write letters to their city council representative to get more of what the neighborhood needs.
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