We hear the term “soft skills” used often. In an evolving workplace, these hard-to-quantify skills are growing in importance. Employers need to get serious about finding and gauging job candidates ...

On Becoming a Leader is a biweekly advice column in which Allison Fine, an author, consultant, and expert on nonprofit leadership and strategy, answers your questions about nonprofit careers and ...

Project-based assessments are what education organizations ETS and the Carnegie Foundation are envisioning to prepare and measure students’ skills. Companies have long evaluated new employees by ...

A new report commissioned by NWEA revealed that parents, teachers and school leaders agree about the importance of measuring students' soft skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving and ...

Soft skills. SEL and MESH competencies. Habits of Heart and Mind. Whatever you call them, a growing body of research suggests these non-academic, social-emotional competencies deserve our attention.

When a 9th grader in Salt Lake City—let’s call him Arnoldo—refused to do any work in his English class, his teachers weren’t finding a way to connect with him. The school’s social-emotional-learning ...

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This post is by Laura S. Hamilton, a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, and Brian M. Stecher, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and associate director of RAND Education. Recent ...

A new study claims the vast majority of Pennsylvania’s school districts aren’t doing a good job at measuring the skill levels of the students they’re awarding diplomas to. WHYY’s Scott Detrow has the ...

On Becoming a Leader is a biweekly advice column in which Allison Fine, an author, consultant, and expert on nonprofit leadership and strategy, answers your questions about nonprofit careers and ...