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Troy Patterson

Is character education the answer? | The Thomas B. Fordham Institute - 0 views

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    "Over the last few years, there has been a growing awareness of the need to incorporate character development into school curricula, and various efforts to do so have received wide attention. Perhaps the best-known effort is the Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, which has been implemented in close to 150 charter schools across the country."
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Essay Series on Character and Opportunity | Brookings Institution - 0 views

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    Please don't forget to read these.
Troy Patterson

Experts Say Measuring Non-Cognitive Skills Won't Work, But Districts Still Try | MindSh... - 0 views

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  • Federal education law now requires one non-academic measure of school progress, which has led some districts to consider including students’ social and emotional growth as a performance measure.
  • She writes that even the researchers who popularized terms like “grit” think using it to measure school effectiveness is a bad idea:
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