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Let’s Take Life-Skills Learning...

By Ellen Galinsky When I left the Education Summit everyone seemed to be talking about developing life skills, not just basic academics,…

October 15, 2012
Categories: Articles and Blog, Tips Tags: "How Children Succeed.", a self directed learner, Adele Diamond, Arne Duncan, cognitive skills, communicating, conscientiousness, Critical Thinking, curiosity, developing life skills, Ellen Kullman, Eric Spiegel, Focus and Self-Control, grit, John Noseworthy, Life Skills, Making Connections, Megan McClelland, Paul Tough, persistence, Perspective Taking, self-confidence, self-control, social and emotional skills, taking on challenges

What It Will Really Mean to “Put...

Many of this nation’s movers and shakers in education gathered this last week of September in New York City for two…

September 29, 2010
Categories: Articles and Blog Tags: Arne Duncan, Education Nation, geoffrey canada, Harlem Children’s Zone, no child left behind
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