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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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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. But before diving into the potential solutions, it’s worth spending a few moments digging deeper into the results and the test itself.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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Over at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, a New York public school named after the African-American civil rights leader that stresses intellectual development and social involvement, Jeff Palladino sits in his principal’s office for the last time in what promises to be a long while.

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

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It turns out, this fledgling university has been quietly working on raising money and finding land for the campus—and testing out its unusual model. Those human needs include pastoral needs, intellectual development, socialization, those sorts of things. I think you gotta separate those things.

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