I am not a fan of EI, though, I have to say, but, performance in 8th grade should not be the end game here so I don't see bringing it up as delivering the 'knockout' blow to CASEL at all. Am I missing something?
I'm not sure what you mean here. The focus was on EI and assumptions about academic performance. There was only one reference to the 8th grade in the article, and it didn't saying anything about knockout blows. It just said academic performance was the same. The end of that same paragraph talked about college students.
