If you want to stand out in a job interview, you'll need more than just the right outfit or an impressive resume; you've got to show off your ability to tackle challenges and solve problems. Employers ...

Children naturally develop problem-solving and creativity through everyday activities like playing with toys, doing chores, ...

Here’s a new axiom fit for the 21st century: The greater the global challenge, the more likely it is to fall to local governments to fix. But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our ...

For employers, educators, civic and business partners, defining desirable behavior and the personal, non-technical “soft skills” that distinguish one employee, colleague and boss from another remains ...

Advances in technology haven’t erased a need for what a Pearson survey released in April referred to as “human” skills. Workers will need skills like problem solving, decision making and teamwork to ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

Technology provides access to vast information and makes daily life easier. Yet, too much reliance on technology potentially interferes with the acquisition and maintenance of critical thinking skills ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Children nowadays lack certain skills that were essential to teach back in the day. And kids raised by boomer parents learned ...