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Students should now, but how they should learn is really important. >> the good news we've learned a lot about how they learn. we learned we can teach important skills. we didn't know we could teach. we can teach them to be problem solvers. we can teach children to optimistic and persistent, teach children to understand their own feelings and be able to channel feelings in a productive way. around learning tasks. when we dot social and emotional side of the ledger well, test scores go up. when we think about kids who are under achieving we've got to look at the underpinnings of motivation, att...

We did that in wisconsin when i was there. it helped to transform the secondary school system. we gave them seven years to meet the new requirements at the university of wisconsin madison. higher education has a role here. in demanding the kids be better prepared. >> you say it's not just what students should know. it's how they leadership, which is important. >> we have learned a lot about how they learn. we learned we can teach important skills. we can teach them to be problem solvers. we can teach children to be persistent and optimistic. we can teach children to understand their own feelin...

Disorder. >> gregg: is it really that hard to distinguish adhd from basic immaturity? >> well, here's the thing, it can be difficult, because, we have cast a rather wide net. these are kids who cannot sit still and, seem unable to attend to learning tasks, and, who may have their thoughts run away from them and day dream, and these are also things younger kids do, and, so, at that vulnerable age, that is the thing here, when you talk about kindergarten-aged kids, their minds are still developing, in a very significant way, every month. and, so, yes, it can be very difficult at that early stage...