# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2021-12-17T17:21:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

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It’s time to rethink our definition of what a “good school” is, researchers assert in a study published in late 2020.⁣ That’s because typical measures of school quality like test scores often provide an incomplete and misleading picture, the researchers found.

The study looked at over 150,000 ninth-grade students who attended Chicago public schools and concluded that emphasizing the social and emotional dimensions of learning—relationship-building, a sense of belonging, and resilience, for example—improves high school graduation and college matriculation rates for both high- and low-income students, beating out schools that focus primarily on improving test scores.⁣

“Schools that promote socio-emotional development actually have a really big positive impact on kids,” said lead researcher C. Kirabo Jackson in an interview with Edutopia. “And these impacts are particularly large for vulnerable student populations who don’t tend to do very well in the education system.”

The findings reinforce the importance of a holistic approach to measuring student progress, and are a reminder that schools—and teachers—can influence students in ways that are difficult to measure, and may only materialize well into the future.⁣

Follow #EDUResearchHighlights2021 as we highlight 10 of the most significant educational studies from 2021—covering topics from bias in kids' books to the ‘paper versus digital’ war.

For more information and a clickable link to the research study check out our link in bio.

#EducationResearch #Education #SEL #SocialEmotionalLearning

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