How Writing Down Specific Goals Can Empower You
This is one of the most popular pieces that ran on NPR Ed in the past year. Here's a brief update:
In 2016, the "self-authoring" curriculum will be tested at a school in the United States for the first time. Community High School, in Swannanoa, N.C., will test the program on 150 students in grades 11 and 12. This is an "alternative school" that receives students who have struggled elsewhere, due in part to issues like family substance abuse and homelessness.
