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Our View on the Common Core Curriculum 

Editorial by Linda Elder

Does the Common Core Advance a Rigorous Conception of Critical Thinking?

The Bertrand Russell Distinguished Scholars Program                             

Highlights the work and thinking of scholars who have contributed significantly to the advancement of fairminded critical societies.  

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Fellows Academy on Critical Thinking

How We Design Our Instruction:
Fostering Deep Thinking Through Content

October 6-10, 2014 
at the University of California, Berkeley

Thank You:

Ralph Nader


Historical Thinking Student Historical Thinking Instructors Active and Cooperative-Learning Analytic Thinking Art of Socratic Questioning The Aspiring Thinker's Guide Critical & Creative Thinking Critical Thinking Competency Standards Critical Thinking Reading & Writing Test Critical Thinking, Concepts & Tools Engineering Reasoning Ethical Reasoning Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda How to Improve Student Learning How to Read a Paragraph How to Study & Learn How to Write a Paragraph Scientific Thinking Taking Charge of the Human Mind The Art of Asking Essential Questions A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concept
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What We Believe

he critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators...they are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all... Read more
~ William Graham Sumner, Folkways, 1906

ritical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
~ Francis Bacon (1605)

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