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Claim
Teaching social and emotional skills to elementary school students improves their academic performance.
Evidence
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Teaching social and emotional lessons to students is a relatively simple task for teachers.
One study published in the journal Child Development found that kindergartners who received social and emotional training in school performed 11 percent better on a standardized test than those who did not.
According to the US Census Bureau, approximately four million children begin elementary school every year.