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Beyond the Carnegie Unit: Schools Are Already Testing Ways to Measure ‘Durable’ Skills

December 16, 2025November 21, 2023 by DCTeamMember

What happens when a school district boosts test scores for students in poverty, raises their graduation rates, and gets more of them to enroll in college, but the students’ lives just don’t improve in the long-term?

Beyond the Carnegie Unit: Schools Are Already Testing Ways to Measure ‘Durable’ Skills

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