Improving high-school curriculums
How would you change high-school
curricula to better prepare students for understanding common,
but complex, situations (such as presidential polls, economic
reports, business balance sheets, and science news)? How
would you teach skepticism and critical thinking? Here are
three short readings and a video. Be sure to read the
comments attached to the first article.
3.
The public thinks the average company
makes a 36% profit margin, which is about 5X too high
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Critical Thinking about Weird Things:
Teaching “Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal” at University