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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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Critical thinking is a tremendously important skill. The most recent results of the Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+) test—a standardized testing initiative designed to measure college students’ critical thinking skills—are not encouraging. This is a serious problem that educators need to understand and address.

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Beyond Digital Literacy: How EdTech Fosters Children’s Social-Emotional Development

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Technology also helps to prepare students for the future and improves the retention rate of information. A child’s emotional well-being and self-confidence is essential to social and intellectual development. The meta-analysis found that SEL promotes a variety of academic, emotional and social benefits for learners.

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With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

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What we think the purpose of a university is, and this will get to why I'm doing this project now, is to give human beings the ability to better understand themselves and the world. So to develop what we commonly think of as critical thinking or critical capacities. I think you gotta separate those things.

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