By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed!
This article by C. Kirabo Jackson that appears in the Winter 2019 edition of EDUCATION NEXT. Click HERE to read the full article. He finds that, while teachers have notable effects on both test scores and non-cognitive skills, their impact on non-cognitive skills is 10 times more predictive of students’ longer-term success in high school […]
Read More…Authentic Assessment is hard to do – but it’s the way assessment of skills SHOULD be done! Authentic assessment refers to assessment tasks that resemble reading and writing in the real world and in school (Hiebert, Valencia & Afflerbach, 1994; Wiggins, 1993). Its aim is to assess many different kinds of literacy abilities in contexts […]
Read More…Stephane Kasriel, Upwork CEO, pens a nice commentary about a recent survey, ‘Freelancing in America.’ You can read the article by clicking HERE. The results of the survey aren’t surprising. According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, freelancers put more value on skills training: 93 percent of freelancers with a four-year college degree […]
Read More…Golly! At last we’re recognizing that there is more to success than just knowing some STEM and being able to take a standardized test! DUHHHH! Brent Orell of the American Enterprise Institute hits the nail on the head. You can access the article and a downloadable PDF document by clicking HERE.
Read More…Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman write an interesting article in the Harvard Business Review (July 2014) about the leadership skills necessary for success and how they change as one moves “up the ladder.” You can read the article by clicking HERE. A summary of these skills as presented in the article is below.
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