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To Focus On Students' Emotional Well-Being, India Tries 'Happiness Classes' : NPR
Short Title: To Focus On Students' Emotional Well-Being, India Tries 'Happiness Classes'
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Sources ID: 54191
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For the past three weeks, students across India's capital have been attending a radical new course: happiness.The Delhi government introduced "happiness classes" in an effort to shift the country's academic focus from student achievement to emotional well-being. In a country that uses standardized testing to determine student success, offers a limited number of seats in top universities and sets high expectations, educators have been seeing mental health consequences.