Film Offers Another Thought of School

Kyle Wingfield, a blogger, posted an excellent referral to a film documentary called, “Most Likely to Succeed.” As Wingfield points out, the pathway that the creators of the documentary suggest includes a “shift from drilling kids on content, a readily available commodity, toward developing “soft skills” [appropriately, the film prefers “critical skills”] such as written […]

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A Perspective on “Critical Skills”

In an examination about critical skills, a perspective is in order inasmuch as “one size does not necessarily fit all.” This is true if the examination is about “soft skills” – SCANS, “Critical Skills,” “Skills for the Twenty First Century,” etc. There are a variety of such “skills” as well as other skills that enter […]

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Lev Kaye (CredSpark.com) Writes: “How ‘Soft Skills’ Tests Could Create Opportunity for Millions”

Lev Kaye, founder and president of CredSpark, posted an excellent article on LinkedIn regarding the importance of “soft skill testing.” Rather thank paraphrase this posting, I’m sharing it with appropriate attribution to the author, Lev Kay.  You may follow him on Twitter @CredSpark. Here is the article. How ‘Soft Skills’ Tests Could Create Opportunity for […]

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