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.

Teaching 136

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 136

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

But it’s an open question whether students can learn every subject this way. Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

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. A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds.

Research 115

Research Tutoring Education Critical Thinking 115

Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2018

With EcoXPT — now being tested in classrooms (see a video from a pilot site below), and available to educators perhaps as early as the fall of 2018 — middle school students use a virtual reality program to investigate why all the large fish in a virtual pond have died. The EcoXPT Experience.

Critical Thinking 58

Critical Thinking Middle School Learning Science Research 58