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Over 150 people gathered on the grounds of the Waukegan to College headquarters on Saturday, June 11, to celebrate the recent graduations of 33 outstanding students.
Educators know there are certain turning points in students’ academic journeys that hold the potential to change their trajectories forever. One is the transition from eighth to ninth grade — if students don’t make it smoothly, they are more apt to struggle in high school or even drop out. Another is the shift from high […]
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Students over the years get into college, go through college and we know that the best -- typically the best way to gauge a child's success in college is not through standardized testing but through high school transcripts. why do we still do this, why do we play this standardized testing game? >> well, the test is a part of an overall assessment process and tool kit. standardized tests have historically been a metric that's used to gauge how all students are doing, right sfl but the search shows high school gpa correlates very much to college persistence and completion. but colleges use it as...
Kids are taught? talk to me about character and what you describe in your book of how grit or toughness or stick to it, coming back from adversity, how can that be taught and translated into a better way of learning and absorbing information? >> i think we were a still at the experimental stage with a lot of these character strengths. i write in the book about grit quite a bit and grit is this idea as a psychological trait, invented by this psychologist at the university of pennsylvania named angela duckwor and the way she defines it, it is perseverance in pursuit of a passion, when kids are a...