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This news should hardly come as a surprise: Many college students not learning to think critically

If I ever had some doubts about the existence of a single most important ingredient in successful education reform, this NYT article might just change my mind. Teaching skills have long been thought of as something rather elusive, much like a secret art. An art that included personality, content knowledge and body language to name just a few components. Well, we might just live to see this mystery clarified, dissected and taxonomised; and much to Ken Knox’s delight, a data driven approach will lead the way.

Relevant to our (for me soon to be “their”) specific situation in the Abu Dhabi PPP Project, Greene’s article is a great springboard to create a new and far more incisive approach to teacher training than ever before.