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Article: Teaching life skills for student success: in Chicago public schools, a program that teaches life skills is helping students make a successful transition into the workforce and into personal success.
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- Techniques
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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THE STATEMENTS SCATTERED THROUGH the article are all from students who are describing what they have learned from their experiences in Transitions: Life Skills for Personal Success, the new employability soft skills training program being taught in Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
CPS understood that it must raise test scores, but it also listened to corporate America, which states that students are not prepared for the workforce.
Skills for Employment
In 2002, CPS recognized that, although their test results were improving, their graduates were still struggling to find employment. They also concluded that those graduates who found employment were ...