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This summer, YouthToday published a 25-year study on empathy in adolescents. The study tracked the way empathy can develop in kids through family relationships, and then get practiced with friends at school and elsewhere. The authors note the importance of empathy in everything from creating successful relationships to managing conflict and even reducing violent crime. At work, empathy matters too—and everybody's noticing. In a study of 1,000 employees, most said they thou

When I first started teaching, I would try to do everything : I'd be the one to talk, to model thinking something through, to explain, to...