Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an educational process that aims to help children develop social and emotional life skills. These include managing difficult emotions, dealing with stress, ...

Empathy may be at the core of social-emotional learning curriculum but the curriculum, which traces its roots to the 1960s and has grown in popularity in recent years, nonetheless drew opposition from ...

Despite political backlash, students who received soft skill instruction made gains in reading and math scores.

Elementary and middle school are both pivotal times in young people's lives. Children experience a lot of emotional, physical and educational changes. They learn how to communicate with their peers ...

CINCINNATI – A study published this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found one-third of high school students experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic – an ...

A new large-scale analysis of existing research finds that school-provided social and emotional learning (SEL) programs improve students’ academic achievement in addition to their social and emotional ...

The damage the pandemic did to academic and social and emotional well-being is now crystal clear. Students’ math and reading skills have plummeted, erasing years of gains; and many students are ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is poised to dramatically influence how kids develop their sense of self and interact with one another, their teachers, their families, and the broader world. And this means ...

A student at an Alabama elementary school completes a social and emotional learning exercise. “If you aren’t implementing SEL practices throughout the day, you aren’t fully committed to SEL at all.” ...

Social-emotional learning will take center stage at Thursday’s Colorado Springs School District 49 board meeting after one board member invoked the words of Adolf Hitler to criticize the programming.

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to persistent challenges in public education. The Seattle Foundation serves as the fiscal sponsor for Education Lab, which ...