Ending the Testing Debate: New Report is Advancing the Case for Ways to Measure the Hard-to-Measure
By Lexi Barrett, Senior Director of National Education Policy at Jobs for the Future (JFF); and Stephanie Krauss, Director of Special Projects at JFF and CASEL CSI advisor For those of us who have championed the importance of SEL and deeper learning for some time, we know the sticking points. One concern we hear a lot is, “social emotional and deeper learning skills may be important, but how do you measure them?” As the saying goes, what gets measured gets done. As we recover from the education era of standardization—marked by No Child Left Behind, remembered for its many standardized tests—we see this question for what it is. People want to know how you can measure these hard-to-measure skills, consistently […]
