enable students to become problem-solvers about real-world decisions
engender skepticism: editors qualify this as a singular trait that all "smart people" share, defined as the ability to ask for evidence before reaching a conclusion
develop capacity to see multiple ways of addressing a problem
promote critical thinking: "purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.” p. 25
