This year marks the 30th anniversary of political economist Andrew Weiss’ seminal paper demonstrating that the relationship between high school graduation and earnings can be explained by non-cognitive factors — such as a lower propensity to quit — rather than the simple accumulation of knowledge. Twenty years after that revelation, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman
Non-cognitive skills development should be an intentional outcome of our education system
- Joanna
- October 22, 2018