Looking beyond the test standards to social-emotional ones | GothamSchools

Looking beyond the test standards to social-emotional ones | GothamSchools

Looking beyond the test standards to social-emotional ones

by Philissa Cramer

Stephen Lazar

Test scores are important. But so are skills that students can never demonstrate on a pencil-and-paper exam.
That’s the lesson Stephen Lazar has learned in his seven years as a city teacher. Writing in the community

After years of increases, students’ average test scores go flat Even if New York State education officials had not decided to raise the scores needed to pass the state exams, today would not have been a particularly good news day for the city. That’s because in addition to having the state call fewer students ...