This is my second post in this series. Check out the first one here. Two years ago I was a member of a hiring committee at my school. Along with two administrators, one other teacher, and a parent, I ...

Does homework help kids learn, or does it just teach docility and obedience? Why are so many men and women attracted to war? What does it take to build a home—physically, socially, and emotionally?

I started teaching middle school students in 1995. The school was private, with a strong governing association, so there was some discretion regarding what and how things were taught. My main subject ...

We all know that critical thinking is a very important skill, but how do you teach students to go beyond the obvious response and use reason? In a new study from MindEdge Learning, more than half of ...

We’ve all been there. Something that is known to work doesn’t work out in the field. But back at home base, it works fine. How do you fix it? Of course, there’s no one right answer to that question, ...

Ask “what role should emotions play in critical thinking?” and you get an unsurprising response from almost everywhere: They shouldn’t. This response comes from a wide variety of sources ranging from ...

Even though it was the last week of the academic year at Two Rivers Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., fifth-grade teacher Katie Mancino was putting her students through their paces.

Lawyers who don’t read one new how-to book before entering the courtroom of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles W. McCoy Jr. could end up asking themselves why they didn’t think to. That’s ...

Our interview for the April -- June Critical Thinking with Paul Scharre--he's a Ranger vet who did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan who is now a robotics expert at the Center for a New American Security- ...