What if you discovered that there’s a way to help students become more well-rounded, self-controlled and responsible, thus allowing them to progress socially and academically? And what if those gains ...

One of the most actively debated questions about human and non-human culture is this: under what circumstances might we expect culture, in particular the ability to learn from one another, to be ...

It's hard to pinpoint when exactly the questions started coming in. Angelyn Nichols, an administrator for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, thinks it was sometime in early 2021. What she does know ...

First it was Common Core. Then Critical Race Theory. Now, social and emotional learning. That’s the latest education jargon term to leave academic circles and fuel a culture-war controversy over what ...

When Sarah Kaka started teaching future social studies teachers about a decade ago, she talked about featuring diverse perspectives and strategies for addressing hard history—the more complicated and ...

Mohandas Gandhi was once asked, “What do you think of Western civilization?” His reply: “I think it would be a good idea.” That’s precisely what I think about social-emotional learning.

People routinely think of STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, and Math) and Social-Emotional Learning as two very separate subjects. Fractions over here, mindfulness over there. However, there are many ...

A protest outside the New Mexico Public Education Department’s office in November 2021 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The education department proposed changes to the social studies curriculum that ...

Wendy Turner sees social and emotional learning as central to everything she does in her classroom, from how she welcomes her second-graders each morning to how she guides them through math activities ...

Clarification: This story has been updated to include a clarification about the legal status of federal guidance. Political pushback against social-emotional learning is prompting some districts to ...