Education Dive – Amelia Harper
“By focusing on these skills, 9th-grade educators who helped improve students’ long-term outcomes made them more likely to attend school regularly and have higher grades, as well as less likely to be suspended or held back. An uptick in measures of students’ noncognitive skills also increased their chances of gradating high school by 1.47 percentage points, compared to 0.12 percentage points for similar upticks in test scores, Edutopia notes.” (more)