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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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 ...

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