Teaching children to express their thoughts persuasively is an invaluable skill that will serve them throughout their lives.

The results appear to be significant: decreases in dropout rates and increases in student engagement, higher rates of college ...

So it was surprising to come across a New York Times essay by a pro-vaccine, left-leaning physician arguing that instead of ...

Put simply, parents and caregivers can promote critical thinking in children by encouraging them to ask questions, challenge ...

A life skill people can’t learn in school that will pay for the rest of your life is planning for your financial future. Some ...

There’s a problem with these arguments: humans require knowledge to think creatively. Outsourcing our memory and cognition to ...

Just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to return to the White House, the coterie of American tech ...

Novelist and teacher Nick Fuller Googins talks about his climate novel, "The Great Transition," and incorporating climate ...

Here are a few more specific recommendations on Chicago-focused art books that came out this year, from art history to pure ...

As an avid New York subway reader, I love the way a collection of essays lets you work through ... She pulls a sort of hat trick, laying out an argument in such easy-to-understand terms that ...

Much of my work during the past 15 years has been aimed at trying to understand what is happening to our country beneath the surface of the news cycle and other distractions. Books including Primal ...