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

MARCH 23, 2020

Teaching kids abstract critical thinking skills is unlikely to help them think critically. Teachers ought to be learning more about what the last 50 years of rigorous, well-designed research has uncovered, confirmed or refuted when they start their profession. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. Are our school systems focusing on big important concepts or just trivia and minutiae as they engage in learning science and competency-based educational practices?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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