The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Russo himself has embodied the sixth: “effective school leadership.” Research has long confirmed that a talented principal is critical for improving student achievement. They even dressed as aliens in order to ask why they weren’t being treated as human. Related: The big jobs of small-town principals.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Professional Development Leadership Humanities 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

We discussed the idea that the global innovation economy is pushing the skill sets of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving much deeper into the labor pool than ever before. Combine this lack of leadership and organizational support with compulsory topics of study (rock identification!)

Leadership 0

Leadership Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Cultures 0

Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The infographic that highlights the 65 jobs least likely to be automated, taken from The US Career Institute really drives home the importance of skills that only humans can offer—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, creativity, and cultural competence. Extended Essay (EE): Requires independent research and critical analysis.

Teaching 59

Teaching Critical Thinking Leadership Cultures 59

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

This micro-credential focuses on how Future Ready Librarians “encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.” With teacher librarians across the U.S.

Library 111

Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s driving institutions to beef up career services staffs and budgets, promote career directors to the highest levels of leadership and start offering career advising to students from the time they put down their first-year deposits. “If For most students, the change can’t happen soon enough.

Humanities 138

Humanities Professional Development Critical Thinking Leadership 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Sometimes, executives need to break the rules and think outside the proverbial box. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch. Weekly Update.

Sociology 75

Sociology Psychology Humanities Cultures 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Parents and their students aren’t defining this demand in terms of the critical-thinking and leadership skills that broadly educated individuals gain. The demand for colleges and universities to justify their existence is greater than ever before. This is understandable. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Economics 95

Economics Critical Thinking Leadership High School 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” Bang, who is partly of Ojibwe descent, said she looks at different mental models of the relationship between humans and the natural world — do we see ourselves as apart-from nature, or part of nature? That doesn’t motivate action or change.”

Teaching 95

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 95

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 Where they’re struggling is to correct some of the behavior issues.”.

K-12 111

K-12 High School Elementary School Critical Thinking 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

In addition to money, black people need the human capital that comes along with the college degree. HBCUs are well equipped to develop more critical technologists who can incite social change through entrepreneurship. Black folk are the number one consumers of Twitter; but what does the leadership look like ?

K-12 80

K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Cultures 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Jane Robbins, a lawyer and senior fellow at the American Principles Project who has written critically about mastery-based education, said she finds the checklist nature of the system anti-intellectual. While it may work to improve math skills, it is unlikely to help students advance in the humanities, she said.

Middle School 110

Middle School High School Tradition History 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

In their 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, PayScale and the executive development firm Future Workplace found that CEOs and human resources professionals seek recent college graduates who possess writing and public speaking proficiency, critical thinking and leadership skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

Tradition 59

Tradition Leadership Government Critical Thinking 59

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

People disagree over whether it should be measured in absolute or relative terms; whether there is a limit to the proportion of humanity that is gifted; whether giftedness can be cultivated; whether it must be backed up by achievement; and whether it should include athletic abilities. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

My mother thought it ruined me, which shows that alarm about the potential for education to change us is not new, but also that it will always be ill-fated, for at least two reasons: because we humans are made to learn, and because education frees us to be who we are in the process of becoming. We are not made from whole cloth in college.

Economics 116

Economics High School Critical Thinking Research 116

Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

Skills for the Future Our revamped curriculum should also emphasize the development of essential skills such as critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity—the 4Cs of education. Peer Assessments: Encouraging students to evaluate each other’s work, fostering collaboration and critical thinking.

Education 58

Education Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Geography 58

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The humanities taught me I could do it. The simple message that majoring in the humanities pays off is being pushed aggressively by this university and a handful of others; they hope to reverse decades of plummeting enrollment in subjects that teach skills employers say they need from graduates but arent getting.

Humanities 135

Humanities Leadership Social Science Anthropology 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Every time a teacher calls on a boy to be in a leadership position without offering a similar opportunity to a girl, or laughs off sexist jokes or doesn’t intervene when someone is being bullied, or objectified, those students are absorbing that these behaviors are ok, that they are normal. It may start small. Sign up for our newsletter.

Education 82

Education Charter School Critical Thinking Cultures 82

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Thinking about my immigrant students this morning and about the disgusting comments made by our president yesterday. In the absence of her leadership, it’s incumbent on educators like Dan Morse to share classroom strategies. Our humanity – not our merit – make us worthy.” .

Civics 100

Civics Charter School Humanities Critical Thinking 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

Teaching 137

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 137

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

It was always perplexing to me to see the disparity between our society’s low expectations of women and my experience of the leadership shown by these two women, my role models. The education sector in which I work is committed to critical thinking and the study of history.

History 93

History Human Rights Critical Thinking Leadership 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Black Americans weren’t even considered fully human under the Constitution. In schools, exposing young people to a variety of experiences and outlooks improves critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Companies that prioritize diverse leadership experience stronger financial performance than those that do not.

History 76

History Critical Thinking Leadership Economics 76