When it comes to measuring social and emotional skills such as persistence, traditional assessments are often “too simplified, abstract, and decontextualized,” according to Valerie J. Shute, a ...

This article is part of the collection: Social-Emotional Learning: Why It Matters and How to Foster It. Up until recently, something has been missing. Specifically, there have been few useful tools ...

Advances in a social skills assessment technology for students with learning disabilities are discussed. The modified definition of learning disabilities proposed by the Interagency Committee on ...

Charlotte N.C. – Aperture Education, a Riverside Insights company and the leading provider of social-emotional skills assessment and intervention solutions, and Committee for Children, the leading ...

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It was the winter of 1997, and as my grandmother hung up the phone, tears gradually began to stream down her face. Another one of her friends, a close one, had died. I wrapped my arms around her waist ...

LinkedIn, the social networking service for the working world, is today taking the wraps off its latest effort to provide its users with better tools for presenting their professional selves, and to ...