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Study: Good social skills shape kids into successful adults

Kindergarteners with good social skills turn into successful adults, study finds

07/16/2015 | Rating NR

PBS News Hour

Study: Good social skills shape kids into successful adults

Clip: 7/16/2015 | 5m 59s

Kindergarteners with good social skills turn into successful adults, study finds

In a report released today, researchers found that kindergarteners’ social skills, like cooperation, listening to others and helping classmates, provided strong predictors of how those children would fare two decades later. Judy Woodruff speaks to Damon Jones of Pennsylvania State University about the findings.

07/16/2015 | Rating NR

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