The "soft stuff"

Even in high school, teachers can help students develop the beliefs and habits that are needed for learning, says researcher Camille Farrington.

Farrington, lead author of the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research report “Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,” says that high schools must shift from trying to raise test scores to get students into college, to developing the skills students will need to persevere in college. Farrington spoke Tuesday at the concluding forum in the 2012 Chicago School Policy Forum Series, “Sweating the Soft Stuff: What Schools Can Do.”