Testing for Joy and Grit? Schools Nationwide Push to Measure Students’ Emotional Skills
A recent update to federal education law requires states to include at
least one nonacademic measure in judging school performance. So other
states are watching these districts as a potential model. But the race
to test for so-called social-emotional skills has raised alarms even
among the biggest proponents of teaching them, who warn that the
definitions are unclear and the tests faulty.Quiz: How Much Grit Do You Have?
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