Developing Tools To Improve Critical Thinking

As a society, we need to do far more to give young people the tools to think critically.

In the current debate over “fake news,” people forget that fake news isn’t all that new. Gossip might as old as language itself. Nor is fake news going away with the rise of every nimble forms of social media.

We can all learn to be better critical thinkers, however, and the Foundation will fund efforts to better integrate critical thinking in our daily lives. It will conduct surveys and opinion polls, lead its own research, and support the work of university-affiliated scholars.