[ForYourChildren]

This is the key sentence that caught my attention..

"..the CORE districts, a group of large California school systems that have piloted social-emotional learning measures."

Is this the purpose of schools?

Studying your children regarding their social-emotional learning.

Experimenting on your children?

[Slyfox]

Meanwhile, who is teaching the kids how to read properly, why can't kids can do proper penmanship and what math skills?

But, they do know how to emote.

[Nifster]

The marshmallow test is a way to gage one”s capacity to delay gratification to obtain a greater reward.

Even when conducted I was not so sure about the conclusions drawn. That said as far as I am concerned schools shouldn’t be trying to measure anything other than what the students have learned.

[ClearCase_guy]

Schools used to spend time teaching children how to think.
Now they focus on what to think.
Political dogma is the central task, not education.

[Albion Wilde]

The word “socialization” that school control freaks love to throw around makes me skeeve. Stamp out individuals, originals, creatives, shy kids, spiritual kids, thoughtful kids, seriously intellectual kids....