According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Child Well-being Dashboard, American children score at or above average among OECD member countries for educational outcomes ...

Social-emotional learning programs have now been in schools for several years, and in many cases, even longer. They aim to teach kids how to regulate their emotions, empathize with peers, make ...

Apr 30, 2026 // Applying literacy measurement frameworks to social–emotional learning risks narrowing development by privileging visible behaviors over internal growth, writes Sreehari Ravindranath.

In 2023, the Yale School of Medicine released a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of SEL on more than half a million K-12 students around the world. The findings showed that SEL produced students ...

On a December morning, the schoolyard of EJE Academies Charter School in El Cajon swarmed with play. The younger kids braved the monkey bars and played clap games: “Lemonade, iced tea, Coca-Cola, ...

In a rapidly changing world filled with technological advances, climate crises, and social upheaval, the need for emotional resilience, empathy, and collaboration is more pressing than ever.

Social-emotional learning programs can boost students’ academic performances, but a recent analysis found that program length matters when it comes to how much. Researchers from the Yale School of ...

Social-emotional learning (SEL) isn’t just a program—it’s a daily practice that shapes how students think, feel, and connect. By weaving SEL into routines, educators help students build empathy, ...

The subtitle of Abigail Shrier’s bestselling Bad Therapy is a more helpful guide to the book’s contents than its title: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up. The book is not mainly about “therapy,” at least ...

Here’s the dystopian scene: Students nationwide can’t read or do math at basic levels and don’t know elementary science or history facts, but there’s a big program to rewire their brains, massage ...