By Breanne Harris on October 11, 2012
Every day we are presented with many opportunities to sharpen our critical thinking skills, but every four years we get a unique opportunity during the Presidential Election. During the Presidential Debates, we are presented with tons of statistics, interpretations, assumptions, political rhetoric, appeal to emotion, and spin. There is also no shortage of political ads, [...]
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By Breanne Harris on August 16, 2012
Recently, Pearson was named a Top Training Company by TrainingIndustry.com. Specifically, Pearson was ranked in the Top 20 organizations for Content Development. This is a very prestigious award and great recognition for the custom training content Pearson creates and delivers to organizations worldwide. The award also speaks to the overall mission of Pearson which (as [...]
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By Breanne Harris on August 13, 2012
Do you want to offer Critical Thinking training to your employees, but don’t have the time or resources to develop the program yourself? Then the Critical Thinking University might be the perfect solution for your training needs! Set up a time to demo this critical thinking eLearning program now! This powerful online portal gives everyone [...]
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By Breanne Harris on March 23, 2012
This week, an 8th grade civics teacher at Liberty Middle School in Fairfax County, VA has come under fire for assigning his students a political research project. What could possibly be wrong with a civics teacher assigning a research project, you ask? Well, students were divided into 4 groups and were each assigned a GOP [...]
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By Breanne Harris on February 8, 2012
A customer recently asked me: “What is the goal of critical thinking?” At first this seemed like an odd question to me until I asked him to elaborate. “Well, if we all think critically then shouldn’t we all arrive at the same answer?” After a bit of thought, I responded that while critical thinking is about holding our thought [...]
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