Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores

“Chicago analysis finds schools that foster social-emotional development get better results for students”

“The schools that develop soft skills produced students with higher grades, fewer absences and fewer disciplinary problems and arrests in high school. Later, the students who attended these high schools graduated and went to college in higher rates. “

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