Encouraging the Development of Key Life Skills in Elementary School‐Age Children

A Literature Review and Recommendations to the Tauck Family Foundation.

This working paper addresses three key questions:

• What life skills have been identified in the research literature as contributing to success for elementary school students?
• To what extent does the development of those skills contribute to long‐term success?
• Are those skills malleable—that is, can social programs help young people develop and strengthen those skills?

Please access this working paper here.

Working paper produced by Child Trends, 2012. Authors: Nina Chien, Vanessa Harbin, Samantha Goldhagen, Laura Lippman, Karen E. Walker