As alternatives to the college diploma have been bandied about recently, one question always seems to emerge: How do you validate badges or individual classes as a credential in the absence of a ...

MERRIMAC, MASS. — Durable skills, such as critical thinking and communication, are the most requested skills among employers, yet 89% of executives say they have difficulty finding job candidates with ...

When I first began focusing on the development of student critical thinking skills in the early 1990s, I discussed ideas for a research project with the partner of a CPA firm. I recall being quite ...

The course will be officially launched after revisions performed over the summer, but UNC has not yet decided how to utilize ...

Do any of these seminars (“The Many Faces of the Freshman Seminar,” The Chronicle, July 29) have as core backbone, general-thinking principles? Selected frugally, then centerpieced as important course ...

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

We were stunned by the survey responses. Given higher education's current emphasis on critical thinking, why did students enrolled in introductory science courses feel so unprepared to analyze data, ...

AI, in other words, did not erode critical thinking; it exposed how poorly we have been teaching it.